India

Indian roundtable on sustainable drinking water services

In association with the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) and the Centre of Excellence for Change Management (CEC), the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organised a one-day Roundtable dedicated to the theme Sustainable Drinking Water Services at Scale: Everyone Forever. The discussions took place on 13 March 2013 in New Delhi. A number of materials were developed around this meeting which are available here.

In association with the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) and the Centre of Excellence for Change Management (CEC), the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre is organising a one-day Roundtable dedicated to the theme Sustainable Drinking Water Services at Scale: Everyone Forever. The Roundtable takes place on 12 March 2013 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. One of the objectives is to develop a national sustainability framework for action that will help anchor IRC’s India country programme in the next three to five years.

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, The Netherlands, and India’s National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR) are joining forces on capacity development and action research.

On 18 December 2012, the two institutes signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New Delhi in the presence of the Secretary of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Mr. Pankaj Jain IAS.

Achieving one hundred per cent individual household latrines coverage

Abudu Gangi is one of the committed women in Koraput district in the eastern Indian state of Orissa whose persistent efforts are adding up to bring about positive behavioural changes among people in the district.

Pardi Village in Maharashtra becomes open defecation free under the TSC India

A neatly framed citation hanging on Gram Panchayat walls in Pardi village announces that the village is receiving ‘Nirmal Gram Puraskar’ on attaining full sanitation coverage in households, schools and Aanganwadi centres and for outstanding contributions to promotion of rural sanitation. This tiny village, in Kalamb block in Yeotmal district with a population of 508, received the honour in May 2007. Now even one year after this special award, the village has still maintained the hygienic status.

India, Bhopal: consider urban poor as citizens and not beneficiaries

The Indian Government should consider urban poor as citizens and not beneficiaries, existing WASH policies should be reviewed with respect to ground reality, and the national urban sanitation policy should be integrated with slum and habitat development policies.