This document by Himachal Pradesh’s, Irrigation and Public Health Department, document in the beginning states that despite huge investments are made for the creation of infrastructure for rural drinking water supply network, the Operation and Maintenance expenses are mounting every year and the service level is far from satisfactory.
In the next section, it elaborates on the current role of the Irrigation and Public Health Department. Following which the strategy to be followed for operation and maintenance of the water supply i.e, the details of the procedure for handing over of the scheme to the PRI’s for O&M is elaborated.
The process of selecting the scheme for transferring to gram panchayat, transfer of assets, the support to be provided by the state government (financial, technical), the process of selecting the person who will be in-charge of O&M, monitoring responsibility of the gram panchayat are some of the important aspects covered in the document.
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