This National Rural Drinking Water Programme(NRDWP) is a sectoral policy document for the period of 2013-2022. The national goal is to provide every rural person with adequate safe water for drinking, cooking and other domestic basic needs on a sustainable basis. This basic requirement should meet minimum water quality standards and be readily and conveniently accessible at all times and in all situations. The NRDWP contributes to making agriculture more productive and sustainable. Waste water treatment and recycling will be an integral part of every water supply plan or Project. The NRDWP seeks to reduce rural poverty. The targets are: 1. by 2017, at least 50 per cent of rural population in the country have access to 55 lpcd within their household premises or within 100 metres radius, with at least 30 per cent having individual household connections, as against 13 per cent in 2013; Ensure that all households, schools and anganwadis in rural India have access to and use adequate quantity of safe drinking water; Provide enabling support and environment for Panchayat Raj Institutions and local communities to manage at least 60% of rural drinking water sources and systems; 2. By 2022, Ensure that at least 90% of rural households are provided with piped water supply; at least 80% of rural households have piped water supply with a household connection; less than 10% use public taps and less than 10% use handpumps or other safe and adequate private water sources; Provide enabling support and environment for all Panchayat Raj Institutions and local communities to manage 100% of rural drinking water sources and systems. To achieve the national goal, the objectives of the NRDWP are established, including: enable communities to monitor and keep surveillance on their drinking water sources; ensure potability, reliability, sustainability, convenience, equity and consumers preference to be the guiding principles while planning for a community based water supply system; d) provide drinking water facility, especially piped water supply, to Gram Panchayats that have achieved open defecation free status on priority basis; etc. Conjoint approach between rural water supply and rural sanitation shall be adopted so as to achieve saturation of habitations with both these services.
India · 2013-01-01