The ongoing four-day training on Jal Jeevan Mission in Wokha completed its third day on 19 October.
The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) together with Water & Sanitation Support Organisation (WSSO) are organising the residential training for community level participants.
The resource persons are from the Salt Lake Institute of Engineering and Management Limited (SLIEM), a Kolkata based organisation, empanelled by the Ministry of Jal Shakti (Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation) for the role.
The members of Water and Sanitation Solutions Committee (WATSAN) and the village council representatives are attending the training. All 60 participants were presented with a Certificate of Participation on Wednesday.
On the third day, resource person Dr Biplab Ghosh from SLIEM explained ways to inspect, monitor and do quality checks on water supply infrastructure during construction.
He informed the trainees on the monitoring of construction progress and quality by GP/VWSC/Pani Samiti during the implementation phase.
Dr Biplab Ghosh, the resource person from SLIEM, speaking on the first day of training in Wokha.
He also apprised them on facilitating third party inspection, such as sufficient depth of pipe as per design and inspection of pipe joints and household connection leakage and quality checking of civil works. He told them that to ensure the quality of construction materials by checking test certificates.
Aremo Ovung instructed the trainees on the Field Testing Kit (FTK) during the programme.
Trainees participating during the training session. (Photo credit: Dr Biplab Ghosh)
Trainees participating during the training session.
Trainees participating during the training session.
Dr Biplab Ghosh told Nagaland Tribune that the participants will be visiting Koio Village, about 15km away from Wokha, on the fourth and final day.
In this village, the participants will be made to “involve themselves more practically in planning, operation, management and maintenance” of the water connections.
Dr Ghosh said Koio village was chosen for the last day because it is one of the villages that has already achieved 100 percent Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC).
The Jal Jeevan Shakti Mission’s goal is to provide safe and adequate water to all households by 2024 through individual household tap connections.
In his Independence Day speech in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that half of the country’s households do not have access to piped water. Earmarking Rs 3.5 trillion for the Jal Jeevan Mission, he said the Centre and states would work towards it in coming years.
According to the government, the mission will include information, education and communication as key components.
The mission is meant to create a people’s movement for water, making it everyone’s priority. The programme is meant especially for the Village Water & Sanitation Committee (VWSC) and other Rural Local bodies (RLB).
