The ministry has finalized targets for the first 100 days of the new government under various components of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). consequently targets have been fixed for each of the States/UTs to be achieved by 31st August, 2014.

The Ministry, with the assistance of Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), has put together a second volume of Compendium of Best Practices on Rural Sanitation titled ‘Pathway to Success’.

The main objective of the CSR Guideline with regard to Sanitation would be as: To promote better human health and improve quality of life among people living in rural areas through improved sanitation measures, including adoption and creation of Adarsh Gram (model village) for all types of Water and Sanitation activities which may include indivi

The main objective of taking up CSR activities in the rural drinking water sector are as under: Provision of safe and potable drinking water in adequate quantity and within minimum distance to all at all times and to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural area; Initiate conservation, recharge and sustainability me

This policy framework is intended as a guide to assist states in developing their own policies for solid and liquid waste management in rural areas. As such, it does not prescribe what should be in the State’s policy.

The National Drinking Water Advocacy and Communication Strategy Framework 2013-2022 provides the “framework” to guide the advocacy and communication interventions in the implementation of the NRDWP.

In 2009, the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme was modified as the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) with major emphasis on ensuring sustainability of water availability in terms of potability, adequacy, convenience, affordability and equity, on a sustainable basis, while also adopting decentralized approach involving PRIs a

In March 2011, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation as part of its mandate to provide technical assistance to states released the Operation and Maintenance Manual to help states to operate, maintain drinking water supply scheme.

This report, Social Management Framework (SMF) prepared as a result of the synthesis of Social Assessment (SA) conducted in the four states (Assam, Bihar, Jharkahand and Uttar Pradesh) in the context of preparing the World Bank assisted Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) for Low Income States (LIS) has the following objectives: To (i) supp

Management of solid or liquid wastes in rural areas is much easier and profitable business than in urban areas due to the fact that it is mostly organic in nature and does not contain toxic compounds. In rural areas, waste can be safely reused for beneficial purposes with limited resources.