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Lack of coordination by RDD hits sanitation mission "Several projects still in obvilion" 9/24/2016 11:28:35 PM Arun Singh Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 24: The failure of Rural Development Department to ensure coordination and involve other line departments for convergence and combined efforts for spreading the benefits of sanitation programme has proved detrimental causing great set back to this mission launched by the Government of India. Sources told Early Times that State Water and Sanitation Mission primarily responsible for ensuring effective coordination between Rural Development Department and Public Health Engineering Department utterly failed to knit these departments together to achieve the basic objective of sanitation programme which can create healthy environment for the public to live. They further said that the RDD, being the major department should have evolved firm mechanism to seek participation of various departments and made the sanitation programme visible on ground by extending its tentacles at the state level as desired by center government. "The main objective behind convergence of other departments was to join together the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNRGS) in sanitation programme as envisaged in the programme guidelines," they informed. They further said that District Water and Sanitation Mission had to devise the convergence mechanism for effective planning and implementation of district project which was missing in most of the districts in the State which can be vindicated from the facts that in 1045 Gram Panchayats of five districts was so poor that out of 17378 dwellings, only 305 dwellings (2%) constructed under Indira Awas Yojna (IAY) had been brought under the ambit of sanitation. The non serious approach of the concerned department can be gauged from the fact that against 38810 Individual Household Latrine Application constructed during the period 2011 -14, only 12754 (33 per cent) IHHLs had been constructed under convergence with MGNREGS, they added. Pertinently, Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP) was launched by the Government of India in the year 1986 with the objective to provide sanitation facilities in rural areas and also to provide privacy and dignity to women. The Government of India improved CRSP and revised (1999) approach in the programme "Total Sanitation Campaign" renamed (2012) as "Nirmal Bharat Abhyan' for sustainable reforms in the rural sector   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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