Prime Minister launches e-Gram Swaraj App and Swamitva Scheme
rime Minister Shri Narendra Modi interacted with Sarpanches of Gram Panchayats throughout Pthe country through Video Conferencing, on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day 2020. Swamitva Scheme. During this event he launched a unified e-GramSwaraj Portal and mobile application and Addressing the Sarpanches all over the country, the Prime Minister said the Corona pandemic has changed the way people worked and taught a good lesson. He said the pandemic taught us that
one has to be self-reliant always.
“COVID-19 Pandemic has thrown at us new challenges and problems which we have never imagined, but it also taught us a very good lesson with a strong message. It has taught us that we have to be self-reliant and self-sufficient. It has taught us that we should not look for solutions outside the country. This is the biggest lesson we have learnt.”
“Every Village has to be self-sufficient enough to provide for its basic needs. Similarly every district has to be self-sufficient at its level, every state has to be self-reliant at its level and the whole country has to be self-reliant at its level.” to villages and making the Gram Panchayats stronger. Shri Narendra Modi said that the Government worked hard in trying to provide self-sufficiency
“In the last five years nearly 1.25 Lakh Panchayats have been connected through broadband from a mere 100 before. Similarly, the number of Common Service Centers had crossed 3 Lakhs.”
strengthenHe said the since digital mobile infrastructure phones areat village being level.manufactured in India, the cost of smartphones has become cheaper and the low cost smartphones have reached every village and this would further
“ProgressPrime Minister of Panchayats said that willnotwithstanding ensure the development the limited ofresources the nation at itsand disposal, democracy.” India has taken the challenge proactively and showed its resolve to move forward with new energy and new ways.
He said that the collective power of the villages is helping the country move forward.
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Editor-in Chief : Sunil Kumar, IAS 4 5 Secretary Ministry of Panchayati Raj Message from the Message from the
Editor: Jal Shakti Hon'ble Minister Hon'ble Minister of Dr. Sanjeeb Patjoshi, IPS Joint Secretary
Editorial Assistance: 6 22 Radhey Shyam Bhardwaj Message from the Anjani Kumar Tiwari Jaman ki Sair, Block Village Panchayat- Hon'ble Secretary Pachhad, District Dr. Mohd.Tauqueer Khan Sirmaur
Recommendations of Central Finance Commissions and 7 Revenue Transfer to Panchayats
Rural India e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project: a stepping stone for 10 23 application for Panchayati Raj MGNERGA Park: A e-Gram SWARAJ: Simplified Work based Accounting 14 Complete Model of SVAMITVA: Survey of Villages And Mapping with Improvised Rural Development Technology in Village Areas 16
Comprehensive Development of Gram Panchayats An Overview of People’s Plan Campaign – 2019 for 18 20 26 SarpanchSwachha Bharat Didi's WordsMission: an Introduction A successful initiative: a 28 step towards cleanliness DDWS accelerates focus on Hygiene Promotion Amid 29 COVID-19 rural women Impact of SBM-G: convenience, safety & self-respect of 33
31 Community toilets for the left-outs in Muzaffarpur 36 Solid Waste Management in Gram Panchayats 45 SBM-G Phase-II Launched
Gramoday Sankalp 3 MESSAGE
Narendra Singh Tomar Minister of Agriculture & Farmers' welfare, rural development and panchayati Raj Government of India
The Seventh issue of Gramoday Sankalp, dedicated to Swachh Bharat Mission
is being brought out at such a critical juncture when the whole of humanity is fighting to get rid of an invisible enemy. Corona Virus or COVID 19 pandemic has become a big challenge before the whole world. Cleanliness has an effective role in containing the spread of COVID Infection. This Special issue has a special significance from this angle. The global spread of this pandemic through Corona Virus has not only threatened the whole world with a deadly infection and disease but has pushed the world economy into a serious recession. Fortunately, the Union Government under the able and dynamic leadership of Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Today,Narendra the Modiwhole initiated world is timely praising and India's effective commitment steps for safetyand timely of our action. people. Hon'ble Prime Minister took the whole nation into confidence and succeeded to a large extent in keeping the deadly virus under check.
Atma- NirbharJust Bharat as in other and countriesVocal for of Local. the world, Indian economy also felt the shock. But, to boost our national economy, the Hon'ble Prime Minister announced an economic package and gave the slogans of round progress and positive changes in The agriculture Prime Minister sector. The announced Government a package has launched of Rs. 20 Garib Lakh Kalyan crores Rojgarwhich included Abhiyan a provision of Rs. 1 Lakh crores for agriculture infrastructure. This will result in an all-
to overcome the crisis caused by the return of migrant labour to their villages from cities. The objective of this campaign is to provide employment opportunities to these migrant laborers agriculturein rural areas sector who as have well returned as in the in life a largeof the number. rural people. Following The Union Prime Government Minister's call permitted to convert all theactivities crisis ininto farming an opportunity, sector even elaborate during lockdown steps have with been a viewinitiated to encourage to bring about and inspire a revolutionary farmers. transformation in
Panchayats also extended full cooperation in Government's efforts during this period The present transformingNDA Government rural atIndia the and centre launched continued e-gramswaraj its intensive portal efforts ( http://egramswaraj.gov.in to strengthen Panchayats ) to by achieve providing the them with more powers. It realized the importance of making Panchayats digital for strengthening and target. This exercise has provided a unified device for effective monitoring and evaluation of the works executed by Panchayats. e-Svamitva scheme which aims at making
The Government took a big initiative by launching available "ownership deed" of Abadi land and residential properties in rural areas. This would enable them in availing bank loans and other financial benefits.
I am very certain that with the constructive approach of Hon'ble Prime Minister to convert the crisis into an opportunity will benefit Panchayati Raj Institutions as well as our villagers at a large scale.
(Narendra Singh Tomar)
4 June 2020 MESSAGE
Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Jal Shakti Government of India
A new chapter was added in the glorious history of India on 2nd October, 2019 at Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad, Gujarat when Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated Open Defecation Free (ODF) India as a tribute to the greatest sanitation champion ever, Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary. The ODF declaration symbolises the inspiring and intense five years journey of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Grameen starting 2nd Oct 2014 when India’s sanitation coverage stood at merely 39% which seemed impossible task to achieve at the outset.
The glorious achievements and milestones today attribute SBM as the world’s largest behaviour change programme in the world by positively influencing safe sanitation practices of over 60 crore people. Over 10 crore toilets were constructed in this ambitious Swachh Bharat journey which started with the clarion call given by the Prime Minister on 15th August, 2014 for starting a Jan Andolan to achieve the vision of Clean India and providing safe sanitation access for all set the context and galvanized entire country.
Taking forward the inspiring JanAndolan movement to the next level, The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi early this year approved the Phase II of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) [SBM (G)] till 2024-25. 2020. Phase – II of the SBM(G) will focus on sustaining the gains made under the programme in last I had the privilege of attending the national launch of the Phase 2 of SBM (G) on 4th March, five years in terms of toilet access and usage, ensuring that no one is left behind. It will ensure that effective solid and liquid waste management (SLWM) is instituted in every Gram Panchayat of the country. SBM (G) Phase-II will be implemented from 2020-21 to 2024-25 in a mission mode with a total budget outlay of Rs. 1,40,881 crores.
As entire world has been combating the COVID 19 crisis, the role of SBMG –Phase II, has become more crucial for India. With increased focus on personal hygiene especially handwashing with soap, waste management, and stress on regular use of toilets; the spread of virus can be prevented with these simple yet effective behaviors and resilience of community. The present crisis has taught us a big lesson that Swachh Swabhav is our strongest companion in this crisis and every individual must be a proud Swachhata Ambassador.
I extend my best wishes to the editorial team and the Ministry of Panchayati Raj for bringing out this Special Issue of ‘Gramoday Sankalp’ with focus on SBM-G. I am very hopeful that sharing of SBM-G success stories through this issue will be inspiring and helpful in building Swachh Swabhav. Dated: (Gajendra Singh Shekhawat)
Gramoday Sankalp 5 MESSAGE sunil kumar, ias secretary government of india Ministry of panchayati raj
infectionThe presents seventh aissue serious of Gramodaychallenge toSankalp the life is and dedicated health ofto the the people national in flagshipthe world. program, Cleanliness Swachh has anBharat important Mission. role This in preventing issue is being this presented infection. to In the this readers view, this in such special a critical issue willperiod inspire when our the Panchayats COVID-19 and entire villagers.
we talkIn in making data, is the it less Swachh than anyBharat social Mission revolution a success, to make the the Gram whole Panchayats of India free and from the villageopen defecation public at large have carried out a silent revolution. Many such success stories have been illustrated in this issue. If people(ODF)? fromSanitation all walks facilities of life which took partwere in only this 39% campaign, in October making 2014, it aincreased mass movement to 100% in in the October true sense.2019. To achieve this goal, more than 10 crore household toilets were constructed. More than 600 million hygiene.Now this movement has to be taken to the next level so that garbage is disposed of properly and there is no accumulation of garbage anywhere. In this issue you will find many important success stories about During this period, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj has also taken some important initiatives. Our
Panchayats worked towards maintaining the constructed toilets in sustainable use. Rural representatives focused on bringing change in the behavior of the people. You will see these efforts of Panchayats in the articles and success stories published in this issue. democracy, it is necessary that there is transparency in the functioning of the Panchayats and whatever Panchayats are the basis of democracy at the bottom of society. In order to strengthen the basis of money the central government sends directly to them, that should be honestly used for the good of the rural people. In view of this, under on-line reporting, it has been made mandatory for Gram Panchayats areto make making payments online realthrough time PRIAsoft-PFMS payments to vendors interface. / service I am very providers happy through to say that PFMS. about 1.39 lakh Gram Panchayats have registered themselves on-board for online payment. About 1.03 lakh Gram Panchayats
Raj Institutions of all States. Audit Online will facilitate online audit of Panchayati Raj Institutions A new audit on-line application was launched on 15 April 2020 to be implemented in Panchayati receiving grants from Finance Commission to ensure transparency and accountability in effective utilization of funds. This issue gives information about new measures introduced by the Ministry in the recent past. e-GramSwaraj, Swamitva Yojana etc. are similar initiatives, about which important articles have been included in this issue. I am sure readers will like this issue. Due to the COVID-19 crisis in the country, we have decided to publish the next issue as COVID Special Issue.
(Sunil Kumar)
Dated: 30th June, 2020 6 June 2020 Recommendations of Central Finance Commissions and Revenue Transfer to Panchayats - Narendra Singh Tomar*
ather of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi had in determining various aspects Fsaid, ''Future of India ofLegislatures Panchayati have Raj. aAs vital per rolethe lies in its villages'’. For him provisions contained in our independence did not just Constitution, panchayats will mean political independence. function as local self government He rather underscored the and will chalk out plans for importance of moral, social economic development and and economic independence social justice at grassroot level. for the whole country including But, transference of rights its rural population. Gandhiji and powers to panchayats considered village as the core will remain under control of unit of nation’s economic development. In his
Constitution,the concerned state State. legislatures Under the 29only subjects have the for countryview, once would our develop. villages becomeBased on self-dependent Father of the PRIs as laid down in the 11th Schedule of the Nation’sand financially concept of viable, Gram onlySwaraj, then Panchayati the whole Raj the schemes relating to economic development institutions were set up long after our country power to decide on the planning and execution of got independence, in the last decade of the 20th and social justice. Powers of panchayats about to the Constitution. In the federal political system taxation and making financial provisions would Century, by adopting 73rd and 74th Amendments structurebe determined to increase by the the States.capacity Besides, of Panchayats States play an important role in building up a suitable democraticof our country, institutions three-tier of local panchayats self governance. were set- transparency in their functions and activities. up under local bodies as the third tier of the as also fixing their accountability and maintain To provide funds to Panchayati Raj
Constitution that Central Finance Commissions FinanceWhen Commission the NDA governmentwere under came consideration to power (CFC)institutions, would amake provision recommendations has been made to enhance in the in 2014, the recommendations of the 14th As against the earlier governments, the approach of the government and a decision was to be taken. theavailability Commission of resources to recommend for panchayats to the President in States. more constructive towards panchayats so far as Under the Constitution, “It Shall be the duty of recommendationsof the present government of Finance has Commission been more andare reserve fund in order to provide resources concerned. toabout panchayats necessary as steps per tothe increase recommendations any state’s of the Finance Commission of that state. The Before a further discussion over this, I would like to draw your attention towards the allocation of funds for Panchayati Raj ofmain resources objective for ofgram the panchayats grants of so the that Central they Institutions. Recommendations of the Central Finance Commission is to enhance availability Finance Commission for growth of local rural
could fulfil their obligations and responsibilities smoothly and efficiently. bodies were initiated after the Tenth Finance Commission (grant period 1995-2000). Till As local governance is a state subject, State the Twelfth Finance Commission (2005-2010), Gramoday Sankalp 7 only a meager revenue transfer to PRIs was recommended. Tenth Finance commission had underupgradation the related of the provisions. quality of basic amenities and crores. During the grant period, a total amount any other basic service entrusted to panchayats recommended a total transfer of Rs. 4380.93 I am delighted to inform that our present government has implemented of Rs. 3576.35 crores (81.63%) was released. Likewise, the Eleventh Finance Commission (grant period 2000-2005) had recommended a the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission in toto and rural local bodies have wastotal released.amount of The Rs. Twelfth8000 crores. Finance During Commission the grant of funds. During the grant period an amount of period, an amount of Rs. 6601.85 crore (82.52%) benefitted a lot as a result of enhanced transfer amount of Rs. 20,000 crore and an amount of Panchayati Raj Institutions. This has provided a (grant period 2005-10) recommended a total newRs. 180,237 energy antcrore strength (90%) to has the been PRIs transferredin this period. to States during the grant period. Rs. 18926.79 crore (94.5%) was released to the services in their areas. Panchayats have to prepareNow, PRIs the are annual able to plan provide which above is called mentioned Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP). On the a uniqueThe recommendation. 13th Finance Commission The Commission, (grant insteadperiod 2010-2015) of giving brokea small the lumpsumtradition andamount, made the amount received under the Fourteenth basis of this plan, Gram Panchayats have utilized proposed to provide to Rural Local Bodies 2.5% Finance Commission. The grant under the 14th of the divisible pool. During this grant period, Finance Commision was made available to village out of a total allocation of Rs. 65,160.76 crore, panchayats without any pre-condition in order to an amount of Rs. 58,256.63 crore (89.40%) was enable them to work freely and independently wasreleased the primeto the reasonStates. thatThere States were had a number claimed of a and to provide basic amenities besides their lowerreasons amount for lack and of someequitable of the distribution states were and not it allocatedMinistry responsibilities. of Panchayati Raj has, with its complying with the norms in respect of the grant. for the convenience of panchayats and for making themuntiring more efforts, transparent. designed On e-Gramswarajthis portal properties portal, in Gandhiji’s ideology that the true growth of the nationHon’ble lies Prime in the Minister growth has of aour strong villages. faith Fourteenth Finance Commission adopted a new built up with the FFC – grant could be shown in approach and recommended that transfer should public domain through geo-photo tagging. So far, lakhmore images. than 6.14 To lakhensure properties greater transparency, have been geo- it istagged mandatory on this for portal the whichgram panchayatscontains about to make 8.25 be made directly to G.Ps. without including the all payments related to FFC to sellers/service other tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions because withpanchayats this new are approach, basically responsible the Fourteenth for providing Finance Commissionbasic amenities (FFC) to themade rural a community.recommendation Along providersAs of through now, recommendations PRIAsoft-PFMS-interface. of the Fifteenth Finance Commission are in the pipeline. The of providing a total grant of Rs. 2,00,299.20 crore for village panchayats in 26 states of 15th Finance Commission has made an interim recommendation of Rs. 60,750 crore grant for managementthe country. Thisand grantsanitation, was tosewage be utilized disposal, in Panchayati Raj Institutions for the year 2020-21. solidexecution waste of management, works like water draining supply, out cleanliness of cyclone of India has accepted the recommendations of theYou Fifteenth will be glad Finance to know Commission. that the Such Government a large of roads, footpaths, and street lights along with water, maintenance of public properties, upkeep Panchayati Raj Institutions. amount has never before been allocated to
8 June 2020 Progressive increase in allocation under various Central Finance Commissions
Finance Commission Allocation (in crore rupees)
11th Finance Commission 8000 12th Finance Commission 20000 (2.5 times) 13th Finance Commission 65160 (3.3 times) Awaited 14th Finance Commission 200292 (3 times) 15th Finance Commission
Allocation made by the last three finance plus,This hasdrinking also been water mandated supply, waterthat the conservation Panchayati Commissions and amount released system,Raj Ministry GPDP will upload examine and theany statusother aboutconditions ODF
appropriate recommendations to the Ministry of Finance.indicated by the Ministry of Jalshakti, to make its
resources to panchayats is directly needed for Transfer of power, responsibilities and inclusive development. Panchayati Raj Ministry hascontinual always decentralization supported this and motivates comprehensive State Governments for devolution of more and
more powers to panchayats. We hope that the Finance Ministry has issued working recommendationsFifteenth Finance Commissionof the Commission would submit would its notfinal only report strengthen this year. PanchayatI am sure thatRaj progressiveInstitutions guidelines on June 1, 2020 to release funds welfare of rural India, and create a new era to Panchayati Raj Institutions on the basis of further but would help accelerate the economic interim recommendations of the 15th CFC. Basic grant will be released by the Finance Ministry of empowerment of three-tier Panchayati Raj in two installments as has been done earlier. System*Minister of local self-governance. for Rural Development, recommendationsAs far as the question of Panchayati of Tied-grant Raj Ministry release and is concerned, this will also be done as per the Raj, Government of India. Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare and Panchyati Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation. Gramoday Sankalp 9 e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project: a stepping stone for Rural India - Sunil Kumar*
E-Governance functioning including Planning, Monitoring, refers to the use by government agencies Implementation, Budgeting, Accounting, Social Aofs perinformation the World technologies Bank,“ (such as Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) that have the ability to transform Audit and delivery of citizen services like issue of relations with citizens, businesses, and other certificates,Despite licenses lack etc.of ICT infrastructure and arms of the Government. These technologies can internet connectivity at the grass root (Gram serve a variety of different ends: better delivery Panchayat) level, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, of government services to citizens, improved in partnership with NIC and the States, has interactions with business and industry, citizen undertaken a journey to transform the governance empowerment through access to information, landscape in rural India. In this endeavour, eleven or more efficient government management. The resulting benefits can be less corruption, increased (11) individual Software Applications namely transparency, greater convenience, revenue Local Government Directory (LGD), PlanPlus, growth, and/or cost reductions Asset Directory (NAD), ServicePlus, National PanchayatPRIASoft, Portal ActionSoft, (NPP), Social AreaProfiler, Audit and NationalMeeting Government of India .”(GoI), introduced Management (SAMM), Training Management and Gram Manchitra (GIS application), under with an intention to transform the governance the aegis of Panchayat Enterprise Suite (PES) the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) in 2006, in policy making and providing ease of access landscape by ensuring participation of citizens had been envisaged during the e-Panchayat Make all Government services conceptualizationFurthermore, stage. in order to proliferate the accessibleto information to the to thecommon citizens. man The in visionhis locality, of the throughNeGP was common to " service delivery outlets and project, the Ministry has adopted the cascading usage of the PES applications (11 no.) under the ensure efficiency, transparency & reliability of model for imparting training right up to the such services at affordable costs to realise the basic needs of the common man (District level) Master Trainers across the States. Gram Panchayat level through building a pool of Project Achievements implemented with a vision." e- Panchayatto empower is one and of transformthe Mission rural Mode India. Project (MMP), currently being A. e-Financial Management System promise for the rural masses as it aims to The e-Panchayat project holds great transform the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) With the enormous amount of funds (Rs Panchayats200292 Crores) (GPs); under it is the necessary Fourteenth to Financehave a Commission being given to the 2.44 lakhs Gram into symbols of modernity, transparency and Rajefficiency. that Thisendeavours is a one of itsto kindensure nationwide people's IT capturingrobust system the entire for effective gamut ofmonitoring activity right of public from participationinitiative introduced in programme by Ministry decision of Panchayati making, theexpenditure stage of planning by means to monitor of a the holistic various system stages implementation and delivery. The project aims to automate the functioning of the Panchayats, the works to providing a complete details of the assetof work, created. recording In this the endeavor, expenditure the incurredMinistry for of project addresses all aspects of Panchayats’ (nearly 2.5 lakh (elected) Panchayats). The Panchayati Raj has put in place an e-Financial 10 June 2020 (i) PRIASoft: An accounting application/MIS PlanPlus, ActionSoft, PRIASoft and National Management System (e-FMS) comprising of under e-Panchayat Mission Mode Project Asset Directory (NAD) with Local Government (MMP) developed by MoPR; wherein GPs ManagementDirectory (LGD) System forming (PFMS). the The base architecture for such is a are able to book receipt vouchers and robust system along with the Public Financial theexpenditure Model voucher.Accounting PRIASoft System is a Double(MAS) entry cash basis accounting and follows illustrated Advantages in the diagram of e-Financial below. Management (ii) PFMS: System prescribed by O/o CAG. payment PFMS system is and a common MIS for transaction-the Central increase in transparency. based on-line fund management and • End to end tracking of fund flow leading to and State Schemes and FFC grants of Government of India. PFMS is envisaged • Effective and efficient monitoring of public Government of India to various levels down expenditure and accounting. asset development. to track the fund disbursement from • Tracking the physical progress of each is akin to a payment gateway for PRIASoft. below till the last level of utilization. PFMS This integration of the two MIS/Applications • Facilitation of improved reporting at Rural Local Body (RLB) Level. photographs to provide information on the • variousGeo-tagging stages of of work. assets along with ensures a sound financial management system in the Panchayats thereby fostering increased B. PRIASoft-PFMS Interface (PPI) Digitalaccountability India programme and transparency. which is Theto transform objective Indiaof this into exercise a digitally is also empowered congruent to society that of and the
In order to track the fund flow upto the The PRIASoft – PFMS interface is one wasGram imperative Panchayats to develop as well a as tracking monitor mechanism. the public ofknowledge its kind whereby economy GPs - are “Faceless, making Paperless,real time expenditure incurred under the ambit of FFC; it paymentsCashless”. to vendors and service providers for the works carried out in respective GPs. PanchayatiIn order to Raj realize Institutions this, integrationAccounting Software between two MIS/Applications was carried out viz. (i) As on date, 21 States are using PRIASOft-PFMS Interface, with 1,00,872 Gram System (PFMS). (PRIASoft) and (ii) Public Financial Management
Gramoday Sankalp 11 Panchayats are making online payments amounting to Rs. 11,000 Crores duplicationusers for prioritizing of assets under the activities various asschemes/ per the C. Geo-Spatial Planning Application – programmes.available infrastructure.It Using spatial wouldplanning enable in local de- Gram Manchitra transparency, quality of service, pace of self-governance will also bring accountability, Minister of Rural Development, Agriculture and Gram Manchitra was launched by Hon’ble D.implementation, Common Service and efficient Centres monitoring (CSCs) System. Farmers Welfare & Panchayati Raj on October 23, 2019 on the occasion of National Panchayat Smart Governance as well as provision of services, Awards,Gram 2019. Manchitra is a Spatial Planning Ministry of Panchayati Raj aims to realize Application for facilitating and supporting Gram Panchayat users to perform planning both of Government and non-government, online, by leveraging CSCs. In this regard, a MOU has been signed between MoPR and CSC at Gram Panchayat level with the use of geo- Commone-Governance Service Services Centres India and LimitedGram Panchayat on 21st spatial technology. It provides a unified Geo forAugust creating 2019 Digital to encourage Panchayats. cooperation between Spatial platform to better visualize the various fordevelopmental Gram Panchayat works Development to be taken Plan up across (GPDP). the CSC would act as single access points 29 sectors and provide a decision support system for delivery of all digital services, in the Gram
services, wherein the Gram Panchayat users The application is being integrated with canPanchayats. easily access It would the services. be one It stop will shopalso help for allin spatial and non-spatial data from various generating employment in the Gram Panchayat Ministries and Departments viz. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, (district hospitals, sub-district hospitals, CSCs, PSCs and sub centres), communityby promoting participation rural entrepreneurship and collective action, and Ministry of Finance (banking amenities like bank Ministry of Communication (postal facilities), whichbuilding in rural turn capacities will encourage and livelihoods more and through more branches, ATMs, banking correspondence etc.),
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, food & Public participation of women to become VLEs (Village Distribution (fair price shops), Ministry of sources), Ministry of Rural Development socialLevel Entrepreneurand economic development. managing Common Service (MGNREGADrinking Water assets & Sanitationdata) and (drinkingDepartment water of Centres) and increasing their contribution in the
CasteSchool Census Education (SECC) & report, Literacy Mission (schools). Antyodaya This The various functions to be performed, (MA)Application and MA is gap also analysis linked and with Resource Socio -Economic Envelope inter-alia, by the CSCs are: allocated to the Gram Panchayat. All this • Delivery of online services by co-locating CSC in the GP building. will support/assist the Gram Panchayat user in the task of data input in the applications information is available in one window, which • ofAssisting Ministry in theof e-governance:Panchayati Raj, performing assist in the upkeep of computer and networking better‘Real visualization time’ ofmonitoring works during of planning.activities/ equipment. development work implementation status and other domain training etc. to elected • representativesAssist in imparting of digitalPanchayati training andRaj progress of execution of various schemes can analysis, measurement tool, query, elevation Institutions. be easily tracked. Analysis tools like proximity provisioned in the application, to support the profile, Panchayat Profile etc. have been • Regular updating of MoPR/State specific 12 June 2020 applications and generate required MIS of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Panchayati and reports. Raj Departments, State Revenue Departments and Survey of India, and aims to provide an Gram Panchayat level including the impact integrated property validation solution for • assessmentSupport in conductingsurveys. various surveys at rural India, engaging the latest Drone Surveying
several Government/State schemes to technology, for demarcating the inhabitant • Advocate and generate awareness on C.(Aabadi) Online land Auditingin rural areas. of Panchayat accounts citizens at Gram Panchayat level. • toAct day as aactivities. platform to States/PRIs for creating management system it is pertinent to note digital automation and standardize the day that PanchayatsFurther, strengtheninghave to audit their the accounts. financial Moreover, in the XV Finance Commission Subsequent to this MoU with MoPR, the CSC-SPV may enter into individual MoUs with the level requirements, rules, regulations etc. Report for the year 2020-21; the Commission respective States, based on the State specific local audithas recommendedwhich they have for emphasised timely availability as a critical of Road Ahead for the e-Panchayat programme reformPanchayat agenda. accounts In thisonline, regard, both beforethe XV and Finance after A. e-Gram SWARAJ a Unified Portal: Commission has recommended that provisions Rationalisation of e-Panchayat applications consideration. In this regard, MoPR is currently in thefor capturingprocess of such rolling information out an online may application be taken into for carrying out Audits of Panchayat accounts called initiative of MoPR which will provide the Gram – AuditOnline. AuditOnline not only facilitates Panchayatse-Gram (GPs) SWARAJ with a aUnified single Portal,interface a new to prepare and implement their Gram Panchayat out.the auditingThis application of accounts shall but also also ensureprovisions proper for portal, a single application amalgamating the maintaining audit records that have been carried Development Plan (GPDP). With this unified maintenance of accounts by Panchayats and functionalities currently available in the PES Panchayats. applicationwork as a good is also financial envisaged audit totool streamline and improve the (as mentioned above) will be provided to the processtransparency for auditand accountability. inquiries, draft The AuditOnlinelocal audit whichThis essentially portal is beingmeans developed tracking withevery an aim of transitioning to Work Based Accounting, reports, draft audit Paras etc. It shall be used, Thisessentially, would to entail audit integratingthe vouchers AuditOnline viz. receipts with and expenditure incurred for each of the activities PPI.expenditures of the GPs generated in PRIASoft. proposed under the GPDPs. Unified portal would Panchayat user performs and would eventually It is equally significant to note that, reduce the number of data entries that Gram going forward, the PPI shall be subsumed under the ongoing development of Unified ease the complexities involved in PES. It will Portal and shall form a part of the Online bring in a more user-friendly interface with ease the GPs to track, monitor and modify their Action Payment Interface (OPI). Audit Online shall of navigation that would make it hassle-free for Plan. be integrated with this OPI for facilitating audit of Panchayat accounts. B. SVAMITVA Scheme * Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GOI
SVAMITVA scheme, is a collaborative effort
Gramoday Sankalp 13 e-Gram SWARAJ: Simplified Work based Accounting application for Panchayati Raj
1. Background 2. e-Gram SWARAJ Modules
The vision of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) is to usher in digital Panchayats to Committee,Panchayat Profile: etc. Maintains Panchayat profile with Election Details, Elected Members, empower & transform rural India. Towards this Facilitates each local government to vision, e-Gram SWARAJ (https://egramswaraj. monitoring and evaluation of works taken up • ingov.in/) the Panchayats. offers a unifiedThe application tool for improves effective withmaintain Sarpanch, a holistic Secretary profile, details, including etc. brief reporting and tracking of Panchayat activities, description about the local government providing a single interface for capturing Facilitates in maintaining the details of Panchayat information. election and elected representatives • Facilitates in maintaining the different
• e-Gram SWARAJ application provides Planning:Committees Facilitates and theCommittee planning members of activities a single window with the complete profile of Panchayat Secretary details, Demographic details and action plan creation the Gram Panchayat, including Sarpanch & Suggestions– Captures the wishes, asset details, activities taken up through Gram of the Panchayat, Details of Panchayat finances, suggestions and resolutions that are put Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP), Panchayat • information from other Ministries/ departments forward in the Gram Sabha Antyodaya survey report etc. units to maintain the shelf of activities. such as Census 2011, SECC data, Mission • TheShelf shelf of Activitiesof activities – includes Enables the planning list of activities that the planning unit proposes to take up in a plan year for eachThe of applicationthe activities focuses proposed on Workunder BasedGPDP. Accounting, tracking every expenditure incurred • Resource Envelope- Facilitates the e-Gram SWARAJ application rationalises the schemesrecording and of budgetary other resources allocation of funds interfacenumber of with data ease entries of navigation. that Gram Panchayat user from various Central & State government has to perform, bringing in a more user-friendly convergence of funds from different Panchayats, the application provides ‘real time’ • Convergence - Enables intelligent monitoringBased of onimplementation regular data status entry of activities. by the sources of funds for an activity, thereby andensuring at the thatsame thetime available important funds activities are e-Gram SWARAJ application is linked with utilized to the maximum possible extent PFMS, thereby enabling Monitoring of Public Action Plan – Captures annual plan theExpenditure quality of on service, a real time pace basis. of implementation, This will bring are not abandoned due to lack of funds accountability, transparency, which will enhance • Panchayats increation different by schemes. allowing Activity plan unit funding to take can and efficient monitoring System in the Gram approved activities as per available fund
be shared by multiple schemes, Priority can be set for each Activity
14 June 2020 Progress Reporting: Records the physical and Allows PRIs to record transaction details
• o Receipt Voucher: To capture any financial progress of approved activities of funds through 4 vouchers: and capture the technical aspect for an • Technical Approval – Helps to analyze activity’s approval. o Payment Voucher: To capture any inflow of funds Administrative Approval – Helps to capture the administrative aspect for an o Contra Voucher: To capture inter • outflow of funds activity’s approval w.r.t source of funding. account transfer of funds Fund Earmarking – Facilitates in the o Journal Voucher: To capture any process in which the actual sanction • of funds is done. Funds are generally released in installments. rectification/book adjustment
Asset Directory: Stores all the immovable and Generates a unique Asset ID for • Progress Reporting- Used to update the movable assets physical and financial progress. The status • status.of an Activity can be updated to ongoing, identification of Assets created/ Captures Asset Details such as Asset suspended, abandoned or completed maintained/controlled by a planning unit location, status, ownership, etc. photo capturing of assets created. The • • Geo-tagging- To support geo-tagging and Displays the Activity and Voucher details linked with the Completed Asset • app.physical progress of asset-based activities Provision to locate assets on Gram becomes smoother through the mobile Manchitra GIS • 3. e-Gram SWARAJ Mobile App • reportingEffective inter-module data flow allows smooth physical and financial progress In order to facilitate ready access to accounting and monitoring of funds Accounting: Facilitates the work-based appPanchayat from Google information Play Store at fingertips, (https://play.google. User/ Citizen can also download the e-Gram SWARAJ mobile • Complies with the 4-tier accounting classification system and reporting com/store/apps/details?id=nic.in.unified). formats prescribed by C&AG under MAS Following information is available through • Follows theDouble-Entry, Cash-Basis the mobile app. system of book-keeping wherein both the selected transaction • ER data of the credits and debits are recorded for a Panchayat Captures the details of the work,
• activities advances given under a work etc. • Panchayat expenditure incurred on the work, (Activity name, scheme name to registered vendors under different and amount) • CentralPFMS enabled and State real-time schemes online payments Facilitates the closure of daily, monthly • (consolidated)Receipts & • that necessary steps are taken to carry Expenditure and yearly book of accounts and ensures for selected FY forward the accounts to the next period
Gramoday Sankalp 15 SVAMITVA: Survey of Villages And Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas The future of India lies in its villages- Mahatma Gandhi
illages are at the core of the country’s soul. Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh Gandhiji wanted villages to attain moral, Vsocial and economic independence. He and Uttarakhand) covering approx. 1 lakh villages and CORS network establishment is for was enamored of immemorial ‘Village Republics'. two StatesPhase (Punjab II (April, And 2021 Rajasthan) – March, 2024) He was convinced that "If the villages perish, Complete survey of remaining villages India will perish too. It will be no more India. Her own mission in the world will get lost." (Harijan, 29-8-1936; 63:241). For him rebuilding of the (Three Year) nation could be achieved only by reconstructing villages. With the passage of time, he visualized Land records, as are available today do an elaborate programme of constructive work, not reflect the on-ground position. The owners which included economic self-reliance, social of the property in the rural areas are not able to equality and decentralized political system. leverage their own property as a financial asset Indiain the forabsence settlement of any and legal record document of rights, acceptable which life inTransformation the villages is the of need the villagesof the hour. & theAn to the banks. Moreover, survey of rural land in Panchayats by ensuring the basic quality of manywere States. last completed about 70 years back, did economic boost in the villages is also germinal not covered ABADI (inhabited) area of villages in ofto India’sMahatma vision Gandhi, of achieving the SVAMITVA global power scheme status. has Therefore, in this 150th birth Anniversary year of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, State Panchayati Raj Departments,SVAMITVA scheme, State Revenueis a collaborative Departments effort been launched by Hon’ble Prime Ministry on and Survey of India, and aims to provide an National Panchayati Raj Day, 24th April, 2020 integrated property validation solution for with a resolve to enable economic progress of rural India, engaging the latest Drone Surveying Rural India by providing “Record of Rights” to every rural household owner. The scheme will be implementedPhase inI following- Pilot two phases:-Scheme (April, technology, for demarcating the inhabitant 2020-March, 2021) (Aabadi)The land scheme in rural targets areas. to
Six pilot States (Haryana, Karnataka, • Protect the Civil rights of villagers, and reduce
16 June 2020 areas through issuance of Property card to thedisputes rural overhousehold land ownership owners in Rural habited
collection in the Panchayats through • Increase the coverage of property tax
automated tax collection records land • Prevent encroachment by identifying public Panchayat Development Plans (GPDPs), • leveragingEnable creation the maps of better-qualitycreated under Gramthis programme The scheme will ensure streamlined The scheme would also support preparation planning, revenue collection and provide clarity over property rights in rural areas. This will open Plans (GPDPs), utilising the maps created under theof better-quality scheme. The Gramspatial Panchayat data captured Development under this programme would provide decision support up avenues for applying for loans from financial deedsinstitutions allotted by through the owners. this scheme. Disputes related to of planning activities. property would also be settled through the title system, and helps in development, and execution SVAMITVA Components
i. Establishment of Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) network: The CORS network would support in establishing Ground Control Points, which is an important activity for accurate Geo-referencing, ground truthing and demarcation of Lands. of India using drone Survey. It would generate high resolution and accurate maps to confer ii. Large Scale Mapping using Drones: Rural inhabited (abadi) area would be mapped by Survey the rural household owners. ownership property rights. Based on these maps or data, property cards would be issued to
iii. IEC Initiatives: Awareness program to sensitize the local population about the scheme methodology and its benefits data/maps created under drone survey for creation of spatial analytical tools to support iv. preparationEnhancement of ofGPDP Spatial Planning Application “Gram Manchitra”: Leveraging digital spatial
progress of activities v. Online Monitoring System:Online Monitoring and reporting dashboard would monitor the vi. Project Management: Programme Management Units at the National and State levels for
supporting Ministry & State respectively with scheme implementation SVAMITVA: ‘Record of Rights’ to each of the village household owners
• Enable households to use their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits from Banks • Strengthen tax collection and demand assessment process– ofMinistry Gram of PanchayatsPanchayati Raj by institutionalising the asset and Tax collection register
Gramoday Sankalp 17 An Overview of People’s Plan Campaign – 2019 for Comprehensive Development of Gram Panchayats
for the preparation of Gram Panchayat GDevelopmentram Panchayats Plan have(GPDP) been for mandatedeconomic on 23rd July 2019:- Efforts were made to reach out to all Line Ministries / Departments that cover the 29 devolved development and social justice utilizing the Bhawan,subjects. New In this Delhi context, under the a Chairmanship meeting was participatoryresources available process to them.which The involves GPDP planningthe full oforganized Shri Rahul on 23rdBhatnagar, July 2019then Secretary, at Krishi convergenceprocess has towith be Schemescomprehensive of all related and based Central on line Ministries/ Departments took part to MoPR. In the meeting, officials of all the Ministries/Line Departments related to 29 subjects enlisted in the Eleventh Schedule of the discuss their roles and responsibilities to Constitution. Panchayats have a significant role to make the PPC – 2019 successful. importanceplay in the effective for transformation and efficient implementationof rural India. 2. theLetters related to Line departments Ministries arefrom to Ministry make PPC of People'sof flagship Plan schemes Campaign on (PPC), subjects is an of important national readyPanchayati in advance Raj: - The through frontline the workersnecessary of activity of Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) for direction and training. In this regard letters taking forward GPDP process with the sole aim from Ministry of Panchayati Raj were sent of strengthening Panchayati Raj institutions that to make them prepared for scheduling the campaign and respective state departments every year for preparing GPDPs. The campaign commences from 2nd October to 31st December and all the stakeholders. to further sensitize their frontline workers under "Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas" will be an intensive and structured exercise for planning Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and concerned 3. Letter to the States from Ministry of at Gram Sabha through convergence between andPanchayati all the stateRaj: - forwith involving a view to the share frontline ideas workerson the line in ofthe action process adopted of the by PPC, the acentral letter Line Departments of the State. most of the Gram Panchayat of various states was sent to all Principal Secretaries/ For PPC–2019, the net result was that and UTs have prepared the GPDP in time bound Secretaries of all the states. The objective manner. The second PPC has been initiated of sendingcampaign the letter was:- from 2nd October, 2019 onwards with the sole a. Appoint a State Nodal Officer for the Panchayatsobjective of preparationregarded PPC GPDP as mandatory for the year duty 2020- to have21 which a holistic concluded plan converging on 31st December, the schemes 2019. of b. Presentation by the frontline workers various Ministries and departments and pooling of the program is being implemented in the state before the Gram Sabha. c. Specific training modules the resources available with them. The revised planning requirement of the Plan guidelines issued by the Ministry of Panchayati d. PlusCo-ordination with the MoPR in the Raj detailing the activities have been well taken swingby the throughout Panchayats the in country the preparation with the following of GPDP. Management Unit (PMU) for the Peoples activities:The preparatory activity of PPC 2019 went in full 4. Establishment of the Programme
Plan Campaign (PPC-2019):- A PMU was 1. Meeting with Line Ministries / Departments established in mid-September 2019 to 18 June 2020 resolve technical and other queries from time to time during the PPC process. Personnel were deployed for the PMU GPDP in Indo-Gangetic Plain States” for providing support under Mission dated 24 - 25 September 2019 at d) Lucknow,“Economic UP and Social Transformation through GPDP for the States of roles of the human resources at PMU Antyodaya and GPDP process. The specific Himalayan region” dated 10th & include:-a. Assigning username and password Uttarakhand 11th October 2019 at Rishikesh, e) “Economic Development and Social surveyors; for the State Nodal Officers and the Transformation through GPDP in
b. Address the glitches in accessing the Coastal States & UTs” dated 30th & 31st mobile application f) October“Economic 2019 Development at Chennai, Tamiland NaduSocial Transformation through GPDP in PESA c.The ProgramEstablish Managementlink with NIC forUnit solutions (PMU)
States” dated 22nd & 23rd November worked from September 2019 to address Mission Antodaya and GPDP Portal. In 2019 at TPSIPRD, Raipur, Chhattisgarh the problem faced by the states in the were placed for resolving their issues on g) People's Plan Campaign for GPDP - this Help-Desk, three tele-executives Regional Workshop on 'Economic Development & Social Transformation daily basis. Apart from this, a log book is NERC,through Guwahati, GPDP in ASSAMNE States' dated 12th being maintained by the PMU team to & 13th December 2019 at NIRDPR- analyze problems raised by states during the campaign. Best practices are being 6. Monitoring of PPC through Video adopted by the PMU is that a summary of monitor the progress of GPDP planning of to the Joint Secretary/Director of MoPR for Conferencing: - MoPRhas taken initiative to regularthe queries monitoring of the entire of the day PPC. are being sent directed all the states to come in single windowstates. In through this context, the video Joint Secretary, conference MoPR, with
5. Organizing of the Regional Workshops: - Orientation workshops covering all progress so far and the problems being regions of the country were organized campaign.faced in the respective field. There were for Preparation of GPDP-2020-21 (Sabki total 10 Video conferences held during the Yojana Sabka Vikas) under PPC 2019. The It is envisaged that PPC would create an a)details Orientation of the workshop Training are Programme as follows- for GPDP across all States and Union territories to enabling environment for the preparation of People's Plan Campaign for GPDP-2019 at NIRD&PR, Hyderabad dated 6th and friendlyPanchayats Panchayat, lead in actualizationlitigation free of Panchayat, SDGs, and 7th September, 2019 there by achieving total converge; environment for Resource Persons of Mission b) National level Orientation Training Panchayat, child friendly Panchayat, aged friendly Panchayat,zero drop outgender Panchayat, friendly Panchayat, zero substance Panchayat abuse Antyodaya Survey & People’s Plan for GPDP Campaign dated 12th & 13th Assam with total drinking water facility, carbon neutral September 2019 at NERC Guwahati, c) People’s Plan Campaign for Preparation Panchayat, total housing etc. In the realization of developmentMoPR’s Vision challenges 2024, PPC at plays the grassroots a very important level. and Social Transformation through role in strategizing GPs– Ministrywork towards of Panchayati addressing Raj of GPDP 2019 Workshop on “Economic
Gramoday Sankalp 19 SARPANCH DIDI’s WORDS
Villages transformed by Swachh Bharat Mission,
Daughters and Mothers are happy with this transformation,
Villages are free from open defecation
Women feel safe due to their self- respect restoration.
Sarpanch Didi :
It's a matter of proud that our villages are towardsgovernment ourselves. cannot be expected to do everything. open defecation free. There is awareness among We, the villagers also have a responsibility
respects. Actually, cities are fast changing into the villagers about the cleanliness. Everyone is Our villages are better than cities in many contributing towards making our streets, nalis and villages clean. Do you know that nearly six ourdumping own groundsvillage a now.model The of biggest cleanliness challenge and toat lakh villages in 699 districts of 35 States/Union the moment before all the villagers is to make Territories in our country have now become open todefecation lack of toilets. free (ODF). The Womenwomen haveof our major villages role no in save it from becoming a dumping ground. Just morethis Abhiyan, need to aswait they for were darkness the worst of night suffers in order due ouras keeping environment our body clean. clean is essential for us, we to go and ease themselves. This has made us more need to extend our fullest cooperation in keeping Villagers : How can each villager secure and we, the women, feel more protected contribute in keeping our surroundings clean? contented with just this. and gained our self respect. But, we should not be Villagers : What do we need to do now, Sarpanch Didi : Didi ? We love the clean healthy environment of our villages. Sarpanch Didi : To maintain its pristine beauty we have No doubt, that Sarpanches with the help of to work hard and the villagers stop creating mountains of garbage just achieved this mammoth task of building like cities. toilets in all homes. It is not very difficult. You have to learn Our villages are open defecation free. this mantra Village gallies and nalies are clean. Reduce, Assort and Recyle. However, we cannot stop there. We have to concentrate on converting our garbage into wealth. Maintenance of facilities built by the government is the duty of all of us. We not only have to keep our toilets clean but we must This also is absolutely correct that regularly use those. Cleanliness should be the 20 June 2020 duty of each villager. All of us must pay special Sarpanch Didi : attention on management of the waste. All of us Okay, now listen. of domestic waste and also the waste from our Fuel-smoke and environment- pollution should think about various methods of disposal have worsened the state of the cities. have more potential and capacity to innovate new farming fields. Compared to the cities, our villages It’s difficult to get fresh air to breathe there Let us be safe and also save our villages techniques of managing the bio-waste and solid waste. We have to evolve such procedures by Let us do our duty towards the environment adopting which we may accrue some profit while And contribute in nation’s growth managing our waste. Yes, I am telling the truth. Pollution is not a mere national level We can make a good earning by adopting the right scientific methods of waste management. Then only the waste will be a source of profit pollution and making money via recycling of the Panchayats,problem but we it hascan becomehelp ourselves a global in issue.tackling As waste.for us. These benefits include putting a check on the residents of villages and as members of
Villagers : Really very interesting Didi, please tell this problem. We shall have to convert bio waste us more about this. into clean fuel and fertilizer. Cow dung etc. from Sarpanch Didi : animal stock has to be used for making cooking gas. We know there are many programs being Mother Nature never makes anything process. run by the Government which can help us in this useless. We have to explore the value which is priceless. conditionsFarm wastewithin will village. be taken Also for processopen dumping instead Science can guide you to make gold of burning. So we can create good environmental from garbage which was considered odour and other nuisances. Together all, waste of waste will be restricted, prohibiting bad worthless. clean and green environment. management with in village level can be ideal for time daily in segregating our waste, we can Villagers : But Didi, presently the whole For example, if we regularly devote some world is worried about Corona. What is the role of cleanliness in solving that? separate that in soild and bio-degradable forms. Bio-degradable wastes,stubble(parali), farmyard Sarpanch Didi : wastes, cattle dung(gobar) etc. can easily be Corona cry is spreading everywhere lowconverted cost. This in to helps compost/vermi-compost, us in avoiding the harmful these natural fertilizers enhance soil fertility at very But we need to understand and act sensibly manure helps in keeping down the cost of the There is just one way to become safe- cropeffects which of using results chemical in more fertilizers.income to the Homemade farmers. Follow personal cleanliness and maintain safe distance.
By using compost, vermi-compost, bio fertilizer; Bharat Mission has a very vital role in ensuring we not only achieve a great yield with negligible What you said is absolutely right. Swachh investment but also improve the soil health. We take full care as to how can we desist ourselves acan continuous produced revenue quality organicgeneration fertilizers source. from the safety but we, at the same time, also need to farm waste which can be sellable in market giving Villagers : Didi, we are witnessing all these things from becoming a link in the spreading chain of everyday in our lives. Your words are a source of big Corona Virus. Wearing a mask and maintaining a inspiration to us. two-yard safe distance must be strictly observed. Clean habits will save us from this crisis. Gramoday Sankalp 21 Village Panchayat-Jaman ki Sair, Block Pachhad, District Sirmaur
Project overview : helped people to earn a livelihood and raise their 2 hectares of arable land is irrigated. This has Development Block of Pachhad of district he Gram Panchayat "Jaaman ki Sair" in the the construction of this project, mainly potato, TSirmaur, is located 20 km away from Block standard of living by generating cash crops. With and District Headquarter. This Gram Panchayat tomato, chilli, capsicum, rice and onion crops are Constructed and completed an irrigation tank irrigated. The villagers of Jaman ki Sair are small
In this construction the Gram Panchayat not have no means of earning other than farming -Achhala Chandra Project on April 30, 2019. andfarmers daily belonging wages to nurture to the general the family. category, To provide who also addressed the massive challenge of water employment to the villagers and to meet water only provided employment under MNRGA, but this project a circular tank at the cost of Rs. approved so that the water is collected in every scarcity by storing the water from 'Nala'. Under seasonscarcity, from the free 'Nala'. tank Its Achhala construction Chandra improved has been the standard of living of all the residents of the 5 lakh and a rectangular tank at the cost of Rs. 3.5 lakh was constructed. The capacity of these land and produce cash crops from the Nala water tanks is 1,14,000 liters and 65000 liters. About village as the villagers were able to irrigate their 10 familiesImplementation have benefited Process: from this. of Gram Panchayat Jaman ki Sair was to meet stored in these tanks. Second prize was awarded the irrigation needs of agricultural - Thisland projectof the for this project. For this, the residents of the at the national level by the Central Government farmers of the village. The water from this village Panchayat Jaman ki Sair deserve for congratulations. source is raised to the storage tank, and about
22 June 2020 MGNERGA Park: A Complete Model of Rural Development
The main and primary objective of the MGNREGA is to ensure 100 days employment for rural Indian citizens across the country, while its second objective is to develop creatingsustainable permanent means of assetsincome in for rural the citizensareas. Theand MGNERGAto fulfill the scheme regional has needs multifaceted of development dimensions by
Department of Rural Development to implement theand core a symbolic spirit of listthe MGNERGA of 260 works Act issuedis a testimony by the to this fact. MGNERGA is not only providing 100 conservation. 4) Use of solar energy. 5) To spread fordays the of peopleemployment which tohas the led citizens to the development(120 days in sanitation. 7) Encouraging rural natural tourism Himachal) but also creates the community assets the Message of de-addiction. 6) Message of positive aspect for the future economic security any tempering with the environment, and by developing rural tourist destinations without of the sustainable nation. sources of income which is a preparing places for educational visits for school children, so that they may receive the message The Siraj area of the district Mandi has a famous temple of Shikari Mata and lakhs of devotees visit this temple every year. The Village of environmental protection (sustainable Panchayat Murhag, 20 km from Janjaihali, is development). 8) Creating employment situated on this route from where the devotees opportunities for local youth and women self- pass. The Village Panchayat Murhag of Gohar constructinghelp groups. 9)permanent Facilities assets made under available MGNERGA. to local people for social gatherings like marriages etc. by tourism with MGNERGA in addition to provide for religious heritage and create a permanent source development block, considering the plan to link of10) income To provide for the protection Gram Panchayat. to the ancient cultural- plan to develop a place called Bharadi and India's local needs, worked on it by preparing an annual During the construction of the MGNERGA park, there was no tampering of the environment first MGNERGA tourism park was completed in a and for the vehicles passing through that area, period of one and a half year. The park has been thedeveloped MGNERGA on about on the 5 bighasconstruction of land. of An this amount park. of about 1.10 crore rupees was spent under the roads were constructed and place fixed for them by using paver blocks under the MGNREGA. Public toilets have been constructed at a cost In the remaining area, about 150 Chinar trees, 30 trees and flowers of other species have been spentof Rs 1from lakh thefrom plan the head.14th FinanceIn this Commissionway, a total and an amount of about Rs 5 lakh has also been planted by the Gram Panchayat. Along with this, boards giving message of plantation and forest protection have also been installed. Any theamount MGNREGA of Rs 1.20item. crore has been spent on the park, 99 percent of which has been spent from eco-lover can come to the park and plant trees. doFigures not saveof wildlife the wildlife have been today, kept then in the after park some and with this a message has been written that "If we MGNERGA Park is based on 10 objectives children and tourists etc. get photographed of rural development – 1) Plantation and forest time they will only appear in the shapes". School protection. 2) Wildlife protection. 3) Rain water Gramoday Sankalp 23 wildlife conservation. In the park, rainwater fromwith thesethe roofs figures of Buildings and also and get Varsha the message Shalikas of constructed under MGNREGA is collected and alsopoured used into for athe pond purpose built of in sailing. the middle This water of nine is pine trees through a tank. Water of the tank is uselater of transported rainwater andto people's also completes fields and the used water for cycle.agriculture, which also leads to multi-functional in the park to promote tourism and with this; About 100 solar lights have been installed the message of "use of solar energy" has been given. A message of love of nature have also been displayed in these boards in the park, together panchayatwith the message so that youth of breaking can connect ties fromthemselves drugs. groups.from place The tomeans place of inemploying the park. local Two people buildings and A gymnasium has built in the park by the gram have also been constructed for women self-help and other addictions. the park and selling their local produce has to positive activities and get rid of intoxication developed.women self-help groups from tourists visiting
Eco-friendly dustbins have been installed ofin the the park park, and whose polythene garbage etc. are is collectedsent to the in plant the In the park, buildings such as sports ofgarbage the city collection council market.pits to ensureIn this theway cleanliness messages grounds, women self-help group buildings, rural constructedhaats and community from the scheme kitchen head sheds and have one toilet been constructed under MGNERGA, one stage has been related to cleanliness and de-addiction are also being given in this park. has been constructed with the amount of 14th Finance Commission. With the construction of A play station has also been built for these buildings, local residents have got facilities children to play in the park. Shelters have been for organizing social functions as well as mass built under MGNERGA to accommodate people sports events. gathering for political,official, recreational and The park is constructed with the ancient temple of Maa Bagalamukhi. After the construction of the park the monthly income of the temple is greatly increased and this old heritage gets a
source of income for Gram Panchayat Murhag protection. In addition to the park a sustainable maintenance and other development works could is created from which the expanses for park
be possible. The message of this spiritual park built amidst beautiful deodar trees at an altitude of about 2300 meters is that - "Development is possibleTejendra even Thakur, with Pradhan environmental Gram Panchayat protection". Murhag, Development Block Gohar, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.
24 June 2020 Gram Panchayat Dhamoon, Block Mashobra, Tehsil and District Shimla, Himachal Pradesh Introduction:
he Gram Panchayat Dhamun is located 20 Troad. This Gram Panchayat consists of a km from Shimla on the Shimla-Nalagarh Panchayat, Shri Baldev Raj Thakur occupies total of 13 revenue villages and 7 wards. In this under this Gram Panchayat. For the all round developmentthe post of head. of Panchayat Airport Jubbarahattiarea, Gram Panchayat also falls has done many works in the environment, tourism, agriculture/horticulture and irrigation sector for the upliftment of people. Gram Panchayat Dhamun was awarded the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Panchayat Empowerment Award in
Union Minister of Panchayati Raj, Shri Narendra Singhthe years Tomar. 2016-17 In addition, and 2017-18 this Gram by HonorablePanchayat was also awarded the Nanaji Deshmukh National
Gaurav Gram Sabha Award in the years 2016-17 of farmers/gardeners, awareness camps were and 2017-18. Hon'ble Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh conferred the Environment Leadership Department of Agriculture and people were Award on 05 June, 2019, for excellent work in the encouragedorganized by for the organic Gram farming. Panchayat Gram through Panchayat the field of environment. Dhamun provided modern seeds/saplings, The details of the work being done by the 1.Gram Environment/Tourism: Panchayat are as follows: - - themanure farmers and through equipment the Agriculture of foreign Department vegetables To promote environment protection and at(red-yellow cheap prices. capsicum, For the seedlessconvenience cucumber) of farmers, to plantation was done in village Baghalli and tourism activities by the Gram Panchayat, roadside a flower and vegetable production co-operative marketing society has been formed. The farmers andvillage local Bhawana people. in This collaboration plantation withwas donePanchayat in an isof giving the areagood income are organizing to the farmers and here selling and their representatives, women groups, self-help groups vegetables/crops through this committee, which wouldarea of promote about 300 environmental meters, in whichprotection cedar, as rice,well demandeconomic for condition opening hasa farmers also been training strengthened. center in asguava tourism and flowering activities. plants Awareness were planted, camps whichwere The Panchayat placed before the government a area to revive the old crops like red rice, Koda the village Jubbarahatti for the farmers, in view organized by Gram Panchayat Dhamun in this of which the government sanctioned Rs 30 lakh. 2. Agriculture: - wasThe villagealso honored panchayat for the provided outstanding 3 viswa work lands done for the construction of the building. The Panchayat To strengthen the economic condition by the farmers.
Gramoday Sankalp 25 3. Irrigation their income. irrigation facilities to farmers, two additional In order to exploit rainwater and provide With the efforts of the Gram Panchayat under the rainwater harvesting item at village goalDhamun, of achieving it can be new easily heights expected of success. that the Gram rainwater harvesting tanks have been constructed Panchayat will be constantly moving towards the Prem Lal, Bhawana and Khalag at a cost of Rs. 9 lakhs Panchayat Inspector, Block Mashobra, facilitieseach. These to the tanks farmers, have a which capacity led ofto 2.50an increase lakh to District Shimla, H.P. in3.00 agricultural lakh liters. Theseproduction tanks providedand consequently irrigation
A successful initiative: a step towards cleanliness
Gram Panchayat Aima of Bhawarna, a cleanliness.development block in Himachal Pradesh, became the country's model Panchayat in the field of After the formation of the government in Himachal Pradesh under the leadership of
Himachal Pradesh, the foundation stone of the Shri Jai Ram Thakur, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Pradesh, Shri Virendra Kanwar. This project was Rajgarbage and Ruralplant Developmentin village Aaima, Minister block of Bhawarna, Himachal completed within short span of three months District Kangra, was laid by Hon’ble Panchayati
ofand Panchayati it was dedicated Raj and on 28thRural of Development April, 2018 to Shri the people of the village by Hon’ble State Minister
Virendra Kanwar. At present, 11 people have got employment from the garbage plant of this Gram Panchayat. It is a self-dependent model, which has been earning profit after taking out all the expenses.It is a matter of great pride that Aima Lively form of Swachh Bharat Mission - Gram Panchayat Aima, Development Block Bhawarna, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, realizes Honorable Prime Minister, Shri Panchayat of Palampur has the distinction of being Narendra Modi's dream. the best panchayat in the country. The system adopted by the Aima Panchayat for the disposal of kitchen waste to sanitary napkins, has been 26 June 2020 inspiration for the country and other panchayats. Thedescribed then byhead the of National Gram PanchayatGreen Tribunal Aima, as Shri an Sanjeev Rana is the father of the discovery of this manure.new system. All the Under people this of system, the village the have garbage taken of the kitchen is being processed and turned into make Gram Panchayat a clean panchayat. The Panchayat Officer and Staff of Yashwant Rao Chavan a pledge of cleanliness, it has been resolved to Development Administration Prabodhini (Yashda), Maharashtra gram panchayat has also purchased an eco- all the cities and towns of India. This mission chemicalfriendly vehicle.system it Throughis used as whichmanure. the garbage is transported to a designated place, and by a was conducted by the Government of India and inspirational panchayat for other districts as was conceived by the Honorable Prime Minister, well. ManyAima agencies Panchayat of the has country now and become the state an Shri Narendra Modi. It was launched on October come here and look at the system and are taking India.2, 2014 Under in honor this mission, of the a Father cleanliness of the campaign Nation, a pledge to implement the same system in their wasMahatma conducted Gandhi, at theto realizenational his level dream and ofrural a clean and district panchayats. Aima Panchayat of Palampur, is a major initiative to make people aware of the also dominated the UNFCC conference in Delhi. importanceurban areas ofof cleanliness.all towns were included in it. This which set up the first waste plant in the state, has Nation Framework Convention on Climate The model waste treatment plant of Gram In the seminar organized by the UNFCC (United Panchayat Aima is the result of the Swachh Bharat Mission and the efforts of the Government of Change) the garbage plant of Aima Panchayat Himachal Pradesh in this regard. Gram Panchayat was discussed and it was explain that how it is Aima is a progressive and environment friendly Sandhu,working successfully,also came herebefore and the sawrepresentatives the whole systemof 15 countries.and praised NGT it very member much. It Smt. is a matter Rajwant of waste management system for environmental panchayat, which has adopted a sustainable solid pride for Himachal Pradesh that this panchayat protection. It consists of recycling of waste, natural resource management and collection panchayat of the country. of Palampur has become the best and model vehicles for waste collection. Swachh Bharat Mission is one of the most of waste from house to house through battery Courtesy Gram Panchayat Aima, Development Block important and popular campaigns in India. In Bhawarna, District Kangra Himachal Pradesh (By District Panchayat Officer Kangra, Dharamshala) this campaign, efforts are being made to clean
Panchayat officials and employees of District Kullu
Gramoday Sankalp 27 Swachh Bharat Mission: an Introduction
he Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, dedicated a Swachh Bharat India to the Tpeople of India and the Father of the last five years in terms of toilet access and usage, ensuring that no one is left behind. approved the Phase II of the Swachh Bharat He congratulated the people of India and the The Union Cabinet in February 2020, hundredsNation, Mahatma of thousands Gandhi of Swachhagrahis on 2 October (front 2019. Mission (Grameen) [SBM (G)] that will focus on Open Defecation Free Plus (ODF Plus), which national achievement. line workers) who contributed to the historical Under the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen includes ODF sustainability and Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM). constructed taking rural sanitation coverage to leverage the capacity of individuals and campaign, over 10 crore household toilets were communitiesSBMG Phase in rural II has India been to uniquely create a designedpeople’s movement to ensure that the ODF status of rural of India from 39% in October 2014 to 100% areas is sustained, people continue to practice safe declaredin October themselves 2019. As as a free result, from 35 open States/Union defecation. Territories, 699 districts, and 599,963 villages and liquid waste management arrangements. hygienic behaviour and that all villages have solid The programme has significantly contributed to the global achievement of SDG 6. SBMG Phase-II will be implemented from The success of the intensive behaviour 2020-21 to 2024-25 in mission mode with a change campaign is attributed to political total estimated outlay of Rs.1,40,881 crores. This will be a novel model of convergence between croreleadership, people public from all financing, spheres of partnerships, life, participating and schemes of Central and State Governments to different verticals of financing and various inpeople’s the campaign, participation. it was a Further, jan andolan with (people’s over 60 saturate the sanitation facilities for achieving movement) in the truest sense.
the ODF Plus villages. Apart from budgetary allocations from DDWS and the corresponding environmentalStudies indicate and health that toiletimpacts. usage It is has93.4 also per State share, remaining funds will be dovetailed cent owing to SBM(G) with significant economic, from 15th Finance Commission grants to Rural women. However, the challenge now is to sustain Local Bodies, MGNREGS and revenue generation thecontributed gains made immensely under tothe the programme empowerment during of models, etc., particularly- DDWS, for MinistrySLWM. of Jal Shakti
28 June 2020 DDWS accelerates focus on Hygiene Promotion Amid COVID-19
ood handwashing and personal hygiene Household Toilets and Community Sanitary practices can protect individuals and those Garound them, while slowing down the commenceComplexes, alongside. starting 20th April 2020.Solid and Taking this into consideration the Department Liquid Waste Management works could also transmission of the highly contagious COVID-19. Jal Shakti, Government of India has issued an actively taken up, for which separate guidelines Further, hygiene promotion should be advisorytoof Drinking States/ Water UTs and on Sanitation, continuing Ministry sanitation of and hygiene activities during the prevailing will be issued. It has been emphasized that all construction, behaviour change and hygiene protocols. with the said lockdown guidelines, including lockdown while observing due health and safety ensuringpromotion adequate activities health should and be safety in compliance protocols and social distancing.
hygieneIn activitiesthis context, during all thestate prevailing SBM-G teams lockdown. have The Department has also given some been asked to review the status of sanitation and additional recommendations with regard to “Sanitation and hygiene deserve the health, safety and hygiene protocols for sanitation utmost priority at this critical time and effective workers and masons.
people continue to use toilets to defecate and that States should ensure that implementation measures need to be undertaken to ensure that of sanitation and hygiene activities commence the advisory said. only after the orientation of frontline workers on key hygiene practices are adopted by everyone,” Following review of their preparedness with Gram Panchayats as well as the Performance Incentivesafety measures. Grants funds They under may use SBM(G) funds to available provide
whichState/UT includes Governments the construction have been of Individual asked to frontline workers. recommence work on ODF Sustainability, disinfectants, sanitizers and safety equipment for Roundup of SBM-G activities:
among the Ministries to help them plan for the all other Ministries, State Governments, DNGOs,DWS hasCorporates, been constantly etc., towards working making with Swachhata Pakhwada are monitored closely usingPakhwada online activities. monitoring The system Ministries of Swachhata observing Samiksha where action plans, images, videos projectsswachhata as everyone’sfollows: business. In this regard, it related to Swachhata activities are uploaded and has been implementing a host of initiatives and Swachhata Pakhwada: Ministries/ Departments announce their achievementsshared. After observingthrough a Swachhatapress conference Pakhwada, and Launched in April other communication tools. For the Pakhwada Prime2016, SwachhataMinister, Shri Pakhwada Narendra is an Modi’s initiative vision under to engagethe Swachh all UnionBharat MinistriesMission. It andis inspired Departments by the qualitativefortnight, observing Swachhata Ministries improvements are considered in their as jurisdictions.Swachhata Ministries and are expected to bring in Swachhata-related activities, thereby making Swachhata ‘everybody’s business.
An annual calendar is pre-circulated Gramoday Sankalp 29 Training on Sujal and Swachh Gaon: The capacityDepartment strengthening of Drinking initiative Water in and July Sanitation last year. (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti launched the of open defecation free (ODF) villages created underThe initiative the Swachh seeks Bharatto ensure Mission the sustainability in the long of PRIs (Panchayat Raj Institutions) to create capacityterm and to enablemanage field solid trainers and liquid and wastes members as well as improve access to safe and adequate drinking water supply.
As per the programme, four Field Trainers
(FTs) from each district will be trained through environmental management (EMM) and Sarpanchs,5-day Training village of Trainers secretaries (ToTs) and organized Swachhagrahis by the • Monitor the level of effectiveness of DDWS by January 2020. The FTs would then train IEC/BCCSwachh Iconic intervention, Places (SIP): under SBM-G in their districts through a 3-day field training review meeting of Swachh Iconic Places (SIP) supported by the states and the districts, under the Swachh Bharat Mission The was 3rdannual held at completingSwachh the Survekshanentire exercise Grameen by March 2019: 2020. The one of the SIP iconic sites – Baidyanath Dham had commissioned “Swachh Survekshan The event provided an opportunity for heads of Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation SIPin Deoghar,locations Jharkhandand their CSR on Februarypartners to 18, present 2020. independent survey agency to develop ranking of updates of their initiatives. Grameen-2019” (SSG 2019) through an and qualitative sanitation (swachhata) all districts of India on the basis of quantitative SIP is a multi-stakeholder initiative parameters. The study covered 33 States/UTs, focusing on cleaning up 100 places across India 683 districts and 17,209 villages. The scope Initiativethat are “iconic” is to improve due to the their cleanliness heritage, conditions religious of the survey included survey of public places atand/or these places cultural to a significance. distinctly higher The level, goal carried of the like schools, Anganwadis, PHCs, Haat/ Bazaars, Panchayat, SC/ST community toilets and citizen’s out in in partnership with Ministries of Urban awarenessperception campaign.of Swachhata. To build credibility the ministry specifically also launched an intensive Development, Tourism and Culture with DDWS support.being the nodal ministry. All Iconic Sites have designated PSUs for financial and technical Objectives of Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019: awareness Phase I Iconic sites: • Large scale citizen participation and build 1. Ajmer Sharif parameters Dargah; 2. CST Mumbai; 3. Golden Temple, • Ranking of districts and states using SBM-G Amritsar; 4. Kamakhya Temple, Assam; 5. Maikarnika Ghat, Varanasi; 6. Meenakshi Temple, • Engage with selected Gram Panchayats in Madurai; 7. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, Katra, J&K; 8. districts to solicit their feedback Shree Jagannath Temple, Puri; 9. The Taj Mahal, • Foster healthy competition between Agra; 10.Phase Tirupati II Iconic Temple, sites: Tirumala villages for better cleanliness progress of Swachhata via sample survey 1. Gangotri; 2. • On-ground audit and assessment of Yamunotri; 3. Mahakaleshwar Temple, Ujjain; 4. Char Minar, Hyderabad; 5. Church and Convent of 30 June 2020 Namami Gange: The Namami Gange Programme is an initiative of Department of St. Francis of Assissi, Goa; 6. Adi Shankaracharya’s abode Kaladi in Ernakulam; 7. Gomateshwar Gujarat.in Shravanbelgola; 8. Baijnath Dham, Devghar; Water Resources, River Development and Ganga 9. Gaya Tirth in Bihar; 10. Somnath Temple in ofRejuvenation, river Ganga ODFMinistry and interventions of Jal Shakti. dealingAs an inter- with Phase III Iconic sites: ministerial initiative, making villages on the bank Sastha Temple; 2. Mana Village, Uttarakhand; 1. Sree Dharma Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM) are 3. Vidur Kuti Temple, Uttar Pradesh; 4. Shri being implemented by MDWS. All 4470 villages Sarveshwar Mahadev Temple; 5. Shri Nag Vasuki located across 52 districts of Uttarakhand, Uttar Temple; 6. Kanvashram, Uttar Pradesh; 7. Ema Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal have been declared ODF with active help of State SwamyKeithel, Mutt Manipur; Mantralayam 8. Hazarduari Palace, West Bengal; 9. Pangong Tso; 10. Sri Raghvendra themGovernments. as Ganga Now Grams the Ministry in coordination has taken upwith 25 NARSS 2019-20: The National Annual Nationalvillages on Mission the bank for Cleanof River Ganga Ganga (NMCG). to transform
Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2019-20, SBM-G Phase-II conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project to the Launched whoSwachh have Bharat access Missionto a toilet Grameen use it. The (SBM-G), NARSS also has hri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union found that 95.9% of the households in rural India Minister for Jal Shakti launched Swachh re-confirmed the Open Defecation Free (ODF) S a National Dissemination and Consultation status of 90.1% of villages which were previously Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase-IIat declared and verified as ODF by various districts/ March 2020. States. The survey was conducted between workshop held in the national capital on 4th andNovember UTs of 2019India. and February 2020 and covered Inaugurating the workshop, Shri Shekhawat 92040 households in 6136 villages across States
lauded the enormous success of Phase-I of the The key findings of NARSS 2019-20 are as follows: Phase II of the Mission is a great recognition to the access to toilets during the survey period SBM (G) and said that the cabinet approval of • 94.4% of households were found to have under the visionary leadership of the Prime toilets used them Ministersignification Shri achievementsNarendra Modi made towards under providing SBM(G) • 95.9% of the people who had access to universal coverage and access to safe sanitation
• 90.1% of villages which were previously villagesdeclared also and had verified sanitation as coverage ODF were of in rural areas in five years since its launch on 2nd confirmed to be ODF. The remaining Oct, 2014. sustaining the gains made under the programme Phase–II of the SBM-G will focus on minimalabout 93% litter and minimal stagnant water • 95 % of the villages surveyed found to have GOBAR-Dhan scheme: in the last five years in terms of toilet access and
MDWS launched Karnal,the Galvanising Haryana.The Organic scheme Bio-Agro is aimed Resource at keeping dhan villagesor “GOBARdhan” clean while scheme increasing on 30th the April income 2018, ofat entrepreneurs to convert cattle dung, and other farmers and cattle owners by promoting local organic resources, to biogas and organic manure. Gramoday Sankalp 31 verticals of financing. Of this Rs. 52,497 crore will be allocated from the budget of Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, while the Commission,remaining amount MGNREGS will and be revenue dovetailed generation from modelsthe funds particularly being released for solid under and 15thliquid Finance waste management.
In his presentation, Additional Secretary, also ensure that effective solid and liquid waste Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation usage, ensuring that no one is left behind. It will (DDWS), Shri Arun Baroka called for the Panchayat of the country. need for continuation of SBM-G beyond ODF management (SLWM) is instituted in every Gram Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister cleanlinessthrough sustainability of villages with of investmentsolid and liquid made waste and of State for Jal Shakti and Social Justice and management.benefits achieved so far; and ensuring holistic congratulated SBM (G) team of Central and State Empowerment, Shri Rattan Lal Kataria The Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM) component of ODF(Open Defecation Government officials and lakhs of Swachhagrahis Free) Plus, will be monitored on the basis of for their tireless efforts in the last five years in output-outcome indicators for four key areas: triggering a massive behaviour change across the waste management (including animal waste making Swachh Bharat Mission a true Jan Andolan. plastic waste management, bio-degradable solid country among rural community members and management), greywater management and faecal sludge management. The SBM(G) Phase II will continue to generate employment and Secretary, Department of Drinking Water provide impetus to the rural economy through and Sanitation (DDWS), Shri Parameswaran Iyer, construction of household toilets and community elaborating on the mandate of SBM(G) Phase II, informed that it will be implemented from 2020-21 to 2024-25 in a mission mode with a ponds,toilets, materialas well as recovery infrastructure facilities for etc. SLWM such total outlay of Rs. 1,40,881 crores. This will be as compost pits, soak pits, waste stabilisation a novelInformation, model of convergence betweenEducation different and Communication (IEC) for SBM(G) nformation, Education and Communication (IEC) is at the centre of the massive momentum Iof SBMG translating into a Jan Andolan and Day.2022 as announced by Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the eve of 2019 Independence country and attention of the world. The role Interpersonal Communication (IPC) ofcapturing IEC has the assumed imagination a further of the crucialcitizens role of the in sustaining the gains achieved under SBMG and has been the most effective component of IEC for triggering behaviour change, with rural focus on regular usage of toilets and ODF Plus lakh gram panchayat level volunteers popularly community, spread across 6 lakh villages. Over 6 activitiesOpen Defecation in terms Free of generating (ODF) sustainability awareness withand called Swachhagrahis, use IPC as an effective
the rural community for promoting access to action on Solid and Liquid Waste Management safecommunication sanitation tooland forensuring triggering continuous and mobilizing usage (SLWM) including the new mission of making the country free from Single Use Plastic (SUP) by of toilets. The IEC expenditure across states 32 June 2020 spendingincreased significantlyon IEC has withhelped IEC infunds covering utilization the forWith Centre outlined and State/District agenda, processes, IEC interventions. and policies An being the highest during this fiscal year. Increased were framed to bring about a structured approach among the various stakeholders. Separate IEC sanitationAccelerated gap before scheduledBehaviour time. Change IEC framework was established and disseminated Communication on the ground and maintaining guidelines were issued, amendments were made
high credibility of the programme among all ofin IEC the funds. IMIS to ensure accurate reflection of on stakeholders with focus on ODF sustainability ground IEC interventions, and effective utilization have beenImpact the major focus of of IECSBM-G: during the year. convenience, safety & self-respect of rural women
ncreased access to household toilets has led Ito the improvement in the convenience, safety Billand and self-respectMelinda Gates of Foundation. women in rural India, according to a study carried out by UNICEF and
In the run up to International Women’s SinghDay on Shekhawat 8th March during2020, thethe studylaunch was of releasedPhase II by Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra at a national dissemination and consultation of women in rural India. of Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G) Increased access to toilets has also led to workshopOthers held at on the 4th event March were 2020. Union Minister reduced health risks, time saving, pride in toilet of State for Jal Shakti and Social Justice and ownership, enhanced privacy, and reduced stress. Among the key findings are: Empowerment, Shri Rattan Lal Kataria, Secretary, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Shri Parameswaran Iyer, Additional • noBy longer not going fear out contracting in the open infections; to defecate, and 93% women feel safer from assault; 93% Sanitation,Secretary, DDWS,Mission ShriDirectors Arun (SBMG) Baroka, of Principal States/ Secretaries/Secretaries-in-charge of Rural 93% no longer fear animal attacks. day, earlier spent on walking to defecation UTs, senior officials from the Ministry (GoI), and • 91% women save up to one hour of their other invited state nodal officers engaged with eating to control the urge to defecate SBM-G. sites; 93% of women do not have to stop Mission (Grameen) on the convenience, safety and The study - Impact of the Swachh Bharat anymore.anymore; and 98% of women do not have to travel up to 1 kilometer for defecation Pradesh,self-respect Maharashtra, of women in Rajasthanrural India –and surveyed Uttar 6,993 women across the 5 states of Bihar, Madhya • while88% of changing women menstrual are proud hygiene to own material a toilet. increased access to household toilets has led to 81% of women do not worry about privacy thePradesh, improvement in February, in the2020, Suvidha and indicated (convenience), that the anymore. 77% of women are stress free about changing menstrual hygiene material Suraksha (safety) and Swabhimaan (self-respect) Gramoday Sankalp 33 Events National Workshop on ODF Sustainability & Swachhata Darpan Awards
The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, organised the ODF Sustainability workshop on Environmental Impact study by Paani12th January Foundation). 2020 Asin Newpart ofDelhi, the workshop,with a special the session by Shri Aamir Khan (Actor and Founder, UNICEF: The study found that, in terms of
average: swachhataSwachhata Darpanparameters. Awards The wereawardees presented include by faecal contamination, non-ODF villages were, on Shri Khan to the best performing districts on key (Arunachal Pradesh), Bemtara (Chhattisgarh), • 11.25 times more likely to have their DiuEast Godavari(Daman (Andhraand Diu), Pradesh), Panipat West (Haryana), Kameng groundwater sources contaminated (12.7 Vadodara (Gujarat), Kolhapur (Maharashtra), to humans alone) times more from contaminants traceable contaminated • 1.13 times more likely to have their soil (Assam),Moga (Punjab), Sirmaur East(Himachal Sikkim Pradesh), (Sikkim) Indore and (MadhyaPedappali Pradesh)(Telangana). and Four Puri districts (Odisha) – Dibrugarh – were also awarded for innovations and initiatives for • likely1.48 timesto have more household likely drinking to have water food contaminated.contaminated and 2.68 times more IEC footprint study by Gates Foundation ODFPlastic Impact Waste StudyManagement. – World Environment Day, June 5, 2019 • SBM mobilized a spend equivalent worth Swachhata affects all aspects of the INR 22,000 to 26,000 crores in monetary and non-monetary IEC activities. theenvironment communities – be init groundwater,ODF regions. surface Praising water, the • privateOf this spendsector equivalent, and the cash development expenditure soil or air – as well as health and well-being of on IEC activities spent by the Government, in ground water contamination, Union Minister forSwachh Jal ShaktiBharat ShriMission Gajendra for bringing Singh aShekhawat reduction community was estimated to be between INRAn average3,500 – 4,000person crores. living in rural India said the WHO 2018 study had estimated that the was exposed to between 2,500 – 3,300 SBM IEC Swachh Bharat Mission would save over 3 lakh Swachhrelated messages Bharat overDiwas, the last2nd five October years. 2019, lives by the time India becomes Open Defacation studies conducted on the Swachh Bharat Mission Sabarmati Riverfront (Grameen),Free. Releasing the Minister two independent said that the third-party Mission would continue to positively impact people’s lives for a long time to come. Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri NarendraModi inaugurated the Swachh Bharat Diwas 2019 and the Bill and Melinda Gates, were aimed in Ahmedabad. He released postage stamp at assessingThese studies,the environmental commissioned impact by UNICEF and and silver coin to commemorate the 150th communication footprint of the Swachh Bharat thewinners.birth anniversary Earlier of in Mahatmathe day, he Gandhi. paid homage He also to Mission (Grameen) respectively. distributed the Swachh Bharat Puraskar to
Mahatma Gandhi at Sabarmati Ashram. The Prime 34 June 2020 Minister Shri Narendra Modi while addressing a gathering of Sarpanches at the ‘SwachhBharat Diwas’ programme said that the entire world of World Toilet Day at Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra, JalNew Shakti. Delhi inThe an topevent ranked organized state by ‘Tamil Department Nadu’, topof Drinking ranked Waterdistrict and ‘Peddapalli Sanitation, (Telangana)’ Ministry of is commemorating 150th birth anniversary of stampMahatma on Gandhiji Gandhi anda few the days event ago. has He said been that made he more memorable after UN released a postal Ministeralong with Narendra maximum Modi citizen at Swachh participation Bharat - many times in his lifetime and like every other Uttar Pradeshhad also been felicitated by Prime had the opportunity to visit Sabarmati Ashram Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi said that, Diwas event commemorating the 150th birth thetime villages got new have energy declared this time, themselves as well. freefrom Hon’ble anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in Ahmedabad open defecation and he congratulated every on 2nd October, 2019. countryman, especially those living in villages, and Sanitation had commissioned “Swachh The Department of Drinking Water Sarpanches and all those who have worked for ‘Swachhata’. He added that irrespective of an independent agency to develop ranking of all Survekshan Grameen-2019” (SSG 2019) through age, social and economic status, everyone has qualitative sanitation (swachhata) parameters. districts of India on the basis of quantitative and contributed in this pledge of cleanliness,dignity and respect. Entire world is amazed that India The ranking was based on a comprehensive set has provided toilet facilities to more than 60 of parameters including surveys of public places crore population in 60 months by constructing andlike their schools, recommendations Anganwadis, PHCs, for improvement Haat/Bazaars, of Panchayat and citizen’s perception of Swachhata Swachhatamore than 10 croreSurvekshan toilets. Grameen 2019 the programme and data from SBMG IMIS. Awards, World Toilet Day Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra The Union Minister of the Ministry of
Gowda and the Union Minister of State, Ministry Chemical and Fertilizers, Shri D.V. Sadananda RashtriyaSwachhata Kendra is being modernestablished technologies at Rajghat on in sanitationDelhi to disseminate to the people. all information relating to Swachhta Abhiyan and toof Jaltop Shakti, ranked Shri RattanStates, LalUnion Kataria Territories conferred and the districtsSwachh Survekshan in the various Grameen categories (SSG) on 2019 the occasion Awards Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra is proposed to be an information,experience centre awareness or a dynamic and education one-stop around centre with maximum citizen’s engagement to impart
thematicSwachhata messages through in assimilating an interactive learning, format with best practices, global benchmarks, and success stories,
balanced mix of digital and outdoor installations. Gramoday Sankalp 35 Community toilets for the left-outs in Muzaffarpur
On 7th January, 2020, the district triggering and awareness generation, efforts had over the keys to three community toilets in the per their experience, the DM said that post administration of Muzaffarpur in Bihar handed Sariya Block, to families that did not have space, populationbeen made in to the encourage village was construction not economically of IHHL. villages of Ebrahimpur, Bakhhra and Manikpur in However, officials realized that a segment of the adequate finance or had behavioural issues that able to spare resources – land and money for prevented them from building their own toilets. toiletstoilet constructionwould cater but to werethis sensitizedsegment, offering enough convenienceto change their and sanitation dignity, whilehabits. preventing The community open As many as 108 such community toilets The move will help the district sustain its open defecation. defecationhave been planned free (ODF) for all status the blocks and ofat the the district. same time ensure that people who were left out under Selection of site for community toilets: campaign have access to sanitation facilities. the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G) Having surveyed the entire district, the officials A community toilet is an asset that is owned thoseinteracted areas with that the needed community urgent and identifiedattention. Thereafter,the gaps in they sanitation selected coverage sites, prepared and prioritized layouts, by the community benefitting multiple users of a locality,According located in to the then vicinity District of Magistrate the habitation. (DM), tobuilt the foundation community and for maintenance began construction and upkeep. of the community toilets before handing over the same toilets cater to fence sitters as they act as a stop gapMuzaffarpur, arrangement Mr. Alok until Ranjan an individual Ghosh, community household Each of the community toilets has six latrines – 3 for men and 3 for women connected toilet (IHHL) is constructed and it helps that to twin pits with a junction box; one hand pump Rationale for community toilet: As there is flexibility in user numbers. with a soak pit and a sand block, complete with soap, running water and light fixtures. 36 June 2020 toilets,An entire they unit are costshanded Rs. over 1,79,475 to families including that Nishchayhas been Schemeentrusted of withthe BiharWard GovernmentImplementation and makematerial a commitmentand labour costs. to keep As for them the keys clean. to theOn and Management Committee (WIMC) of the 7 the other hand, maintenance and repair work Samiti involving Jeevika didis. continuous monitoring will be done by Nigrani A&N Islands tackles Plastic Waste
s a part of its plastic waste management campaign under Swachh Bharat Mission, Athe administration of the Union Territory touristsof Andaman and others. and Nicobar The waste Islands was has transported bailed a fromwhopping Swaraj 300 kgsDweep of plastic (Havelock waste, leftIsland) behind and by Shaheed Dweep (Neil Island) to Port Blair on
24th FebruaryPlastic pollution 2020. in the Andaman and for some time. The litter comes from tourists andNicobar people Islands living has in those been islands a growing who concernrely on products shipped from the mainland, most of which is packed in plastics.
According to Mr. Bijoy Kumar Das,
use plastic items have already been banned in extension officer, designated as nodal officer on those caught in the act of selling or storing the the islands. To reinforce this, fines are imposed Portfor Swachh Blair for Bharat further Mission processing Grameen – either (SBM-G), for the waste collected has been transported to road construction or for transportation to the same and at times, those banned items are also mainland for recycling. seized.At the same time, IEC activities to include He said that most of the waste is generated regular awareness programmes are being organized among the general public. Further, in tourist places. While plastic, metal and e-waste banners and posters have been put up in public are sent for recycling, bio-degradable waste is Hoardings at different locations highlight well as community level at waste management spaces and also distributed to households. centresused for set vermi-composting up in every village. at household level as notifications about fines that will be imposed on violation of SWM By-laws. PET bottles below 2 litres and other single Gramoday Sankalp 37 awareness among them. The most recent cleanliness drive took place in Radhanagar Beach them Thein various UT administration cleanliness driveshas also to mobilized clean up students, general public and officials, involving in Swaraj Dweep on 22nd February 2020. public spacesJaisalmer and beaches and ensures also to build Sanitation for all
s the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) enters its second phase of implementation, Athe district administration of Jaisalmer, and has initiated a special drive to identify any Rajasthan, is ensuring that no one is left behind household which may have been left out in the andfirst tophase support whether the construction due to the households of toilets for being such households.new or that they belong to a floating population;
This is in keeping with the directive issued by the Department of Drinking Water The Union Cabinet has approved Phase II of and Sanitation (DDWS), advising all the States to still do not have access to a toilet, and provide the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen SBM-(G) till reconfirm that there are no rural households that Defecation Free Plus (ODF Plus) India, which 2024-25, with the objective of achieving an Open the necessary support to any such identified includes ODF sustainability and Solid and Liquid households to build individual household toilets the programme. Waste Management (SLWM). Work towards in order to ensure that no one is left behind under uses a toilet will continue simultaneously. ensuring that no one is left behind and everyone Jaisalmer was declared ODF on 2nd
household toilets. This was a feat, given that October 2017 after constructing 63078 individual
sanitation coverage of the district was just about have37.72% access in 2012. to sanitation. Now the district administration is keen to fill the gap; ensuring that all homes
According to CEO-Zilla Parishad, Shri Om Prakash, intensive surveys by Swachhagrahis 38 June 2020 (front line workers) and Gram Panchayat personnel and random inspection by district motivatedlevel officers to ensure including regular DM, usage CEO and of theirtoilets BDOs was andcarried to keep out their to find surroundings gaps. Further, neat and peoplewere tidy, the CEO said.
Additionally, a total of 140 community toilets are being built in bus stands, religions places and public places. Of these, 81 have men and women, each community sanitary been completed while the remaining 59 was to be completed by April 2020. The community Panchayats are free for use. Separate for two urinals. toilets which will be maintained by the Gram complex houses two toilets, 2 bathrooms and ToT on Sujal & Swachh Gaon in Nagaland
A five-day Training of Trainers (ToT) on (PHED)Sujal in andKohima Swachh district Gaon beganof Nagaland at the office on of Public Health Engineering Department
February 10, 2020. The participants will programmes.subsequently train Sarpanchs, village secretaries and Swachhagrahis through 3-day training participatedAs many in the as training. 48 field trainers (25 women and 23 men) from various districts of Nagaland The UNICEF supported ToT is a part of the the village • Drinking water availability and demand in the Government of India to ensure sustenance capacity strengthening initiative launched by supply scheme of open defecation free (ODF) status and for • Operation and maintenance of water waste management, plastic waste management, • Essentials of water quality management greywatertaking up ODFmanagement Plus agenda and (biodegradablefaecal sludge (WQM) management), along with improved access to • Sustaining open defecation free status safe and secure water supply through Jal Jeevan liquid waste management Mission (JJM) Programme. • Status and operational plan for solid and Areas covered during the training were: sludge management • Liquid waste management and Faecal sanitation service delivery (IEC) for Sujal and Swachh Gaon • Importance of sustainable water and • Information Education and Communication through Swachhagrahis • Concept of Sujal and Swachh Gaon • Sustaining water and sanitation outcomes • Introduction to Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)
Gramoday Sankalp 39 Sujal Gaon is directly linked to motivated and capacitated • Functions of Swachhagrahi for creation of GP levelSuccess functionaries of these capacity mainly building Sarpanch, initiatives village Swachhagrahis for conducting IEC and secretaries and Swachhagrahis. It is critical to • Development of skills among strengthen capacities of the village functionaries regarding their role in ODF Plus and JJM, activities community mobilization activities for Swachh Gaon and support from district • Community Led action planning process knowledge. Theoretical sessions were followed for achieving desired results and relevant subject In order to reach out to around two and of implementation tools; social mapping; assessmentby field visits of thatwater included supply demonstrationsfacilities and ahalf pool lack of GPscompetent in the country;human resources a large pool to caterof field to trainers is required. The DDWS intends to create Seasonality mapping; Natural Resource mapping; Householdwater budgeting; level assessment Water quality of assessment;water and the capacity building needs of GPs in a cascading sanitation facilities; Assessment of institutional mode. As a part of this initiative, 4 Field Trainers (FTs) will be identified from each district to be documentation; Practice session on Sarpanchs (ToTs). These FTs will further train Sarpanchs, trained through five-day Trainings of Trainers andwater Swachhagrahis and sanitation training facilities; and Sanitation introduction Walk; to village secretaries and Swachhagrahis through trainer Apps, among others. 3-day trainings.
Every Village has to be self-sufficient enough to provide for its“ basic needs. Similarly every district has to be self-sufficient at its level, every state has to be self-reliant at its level and the whole country has to be self-reliant at its level.
- Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on the occasion of Panchchyati Raj Day, 2020
40 June 2020 ” Jeevika SHGs make more than 5 lakh masks
s states across the country are struggling material to make masks, owing to the lockdown. Ahas unfolded over the last few months, Some districts were unable to receive raw Self Helpto dealGroups with (SHGs)the global of medicalBihar have crisis made that provideTo address raw material this, the supply Bihar to Rural all those Livelihoods districts, of the hour. thatPromotion show demand. Society (BRLPS), is planning to more than five lakh face masks, meeting the need In the meantime, Shri Shrawan Kumar, Minister, Rural Development Department, According to Mr. Suman Lal Karn, State Government of Bihar has instructed all DMs to Consultant- IEC, Lohiya Swachh Bihar Abhiyan, ensure smooth supply of raw material for mask more than 5 lakh masks have been prepared by preparation to Jeevika SHGs, adding that local 1276 Jeevika Self Help Groups over the last few days. On 6th April alone, as many as 65,842 masks were made ready and a total of about 5,07,947 consumptionAmong shouldothers, be encouraged.South Bihar Power masks were ready for use on 8th April 2020.
As far as numbers are concerned, Jeevika distribution company has purchased 54000 masks. didis produced 66,657 masks in Sheikhpura-the smallest district of Bihar; 35217 in Patna; 51,000 Indeed, Jeevika Didis are proving to be the in East Champaran, 43,000 in Madhubani, 26,649 goodreal warriors source of against livelihood COVID-19. and entrepreneurship In such a critical in Aurangabad, 22,669 in Gaya and 20,892in fortime them. as this, mask preparation is proving to be a Jahanabad. Nalanda which had started late has prepared 9000 masks so far.
Gramoday Sankalp 41 Blanket ban on single use Disposable Plastic
he State Government of Kerala has imposed Ttransport and storage of single use The order went on to clarify that plastic- a blanket ban on sale, manufacture, coated leaves used as plates are banned as also plastic sapling bags. As far as garbage bags are plastic items in the State with effect from 1st concerned, only those made of biodegradable January 2020. As a replacement or substitute materials alone can be used for collecting and for the banned single use plastic, bio-degradable segregating of biomedical waste. materials as those stipulated in the Plastic Waste Management Rules of 2016 can be used. done Inon thesuch wake products of fake andcompostable the authenticity/ products Department as it was noticed that large quantities entering the market, random checks will be The order was issued by the Environment biodegradability of the products will be tested in of fake biodegradable carry bags were entering authorized labs, the order warned. the market circumventing the plastic ban. only cloth,Further, paper the (plastic use offree) plastic-coated and poly ethylene cloth intention“The of public the Government and shop owners to get arerid generallyof plastic material for hoarding is strictly banned and unable to distinguish them, defeating the very material should be used for hoardings as a from the State,” the Order said. substitute of flex/PVC hoardings. Also, the logos ‘recyclable, PVC free, expiry date and name of In this context the state government has printing unit and printing number should appear issued a further clarification listing out alternative on the print; and the banners should be removed materials that can be used as substitutes for by the installing agency after 30 days. banned single use plastic items. Accordingly carry bags whether made of compostable materials added.Those found to be violating the Government or other materials are banned and instead only order will be liable to pay fine as specified, it cloth or paper bags can be used as carry bags.
42 June 2020 Thooimai Kaavalars – the new champions of Tamil Nadu
ith Tamil Nadu having the second
the country, the emerging champions against thehighest disease COVID-19 are the Thooimai positive Kaavalars cases in (Protectors of Environment) and Swachhagrahis.
Thooimai Kaavalars is Tamil Nadu’s Solid to door collection, segregation, transportation of wasteWaste to management segregation workersand compost engaged shed forand Door safe disposal of solid waste. In addition to their, work Wthey are involved in the disinfection activities across the State. They also aid the district administration in the implementation of social distancing norms. ‘Stay home – no one is safe until everyone is safe,’ is the message they pass entrepreneurship for them. on to the communities. proving to be a good source of livelihood and Additionally, a disinfection tunnel has Swachhagrahis are helping in making using innovative techniques to spread awareness ofbeen Tamil set Nadu.up at theAll peopletemporary who vegetable visit the market masks, sanitizers, soaps and Lysol as well as passnear through the old the bus tunnel stand that in Thoothukodi protects them district from such a critical time as this, mask preparation is infection. about handwashing and social distancing.In
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Gramoday Sankalp 43 Ramanagara focuses on SWM, conversion of single pit toilets into twin pits
amangara district is the centre of Further, given that some of the homes had sericulture activities with more than 2000 single pit toilets, the district administration has Rsilk reeling and twisting household units. The main source of income comes from the agricultural sector. Famous for its silk market enabled those households to convert their single which is one of the largest in Asia, it has earned treatmentpit toilets intoand twintransformation pit toilets. of Twin-pit faecal sludge toilets the name of Silk City. People from different states intoare improvedmanure. They pit latrines,consist of which two pits, allow which on-site are participate in cocoon transactions here.
Having achieved open defecation free (ODF) linked, using a Y-junction, to a single pour-flush toilet. Only one pit is used at a time. While one pit is filling,Other the interventionsother full pit is to resting. ensure toilet usage ofstatus Ramanagara on 2nd October in Karnataka 2017, afterhas constructingcommenced and effective treatment of solid waste: 1,68,966 toilets, the district administration Regular collection and transportation of waste (wet and dry) twinvarious pits activities toilets; as about a part solid of ODF waste Plus management activities. (SWM) and conversion of single pit toilets into defecation and open dumping of waste Collection of fine and penalties for open training was organised for village, taluk and Collection of user charges from households ODF Plus activities: To begin with intensive and commercials centres waste effectively. This included segregation at source,district collection level officials of waste on ways daily, to preparation manage solid of compost from wet waste and recycling of dry Reselling of the Biodegradable and Non- Campaign and awareness programme on waste. Biodegradable items source segregation and waste management Regular monitoring of toilet usage and Besides, training and inter-district exposure Recording of best practices visits were organised to Udupi for officials to help them learn how to set up sustainable SWM units. regular VWSC committee meetings interventions.The GP is now utilizing funds from different sources to ensure the sustainability of the SWM Celebration of Sanitation Day, World Water Day, World Toilet Day meaningfully
44 June 2020 Solid Waste Management in Gram Panchayats (Being guided by pragmatism)
One thing I would certainly like to say is that we should always consider these waste “as resources and wealth. Do not see it as just garbage. Once we start looking at garbage and waste as a wealth, we shall also find newer, withtechniques newer of schemeswaste management. and also comeYoung forwardpersons withconnected new equipments.with Start-ups The will Central also come Government forward has along with State Governments and with the cooperation of municipal representatives of cities decided to launch a massive and important
– Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in his management system entails the capacity to plan; campaign of waste management.” Mann ki Baat, on 28th May, 2017 organise the logistics and manpower; coordinate
As what would you call ‘stick to one thing until you reach there’, the Swachh Bharat thatcollection may arise vehicles; from scientific such a system. treatment of various streams of waste; and meeting the expenditures Defecation Free] status until we reached there Interestingly, as it was mentioned earlier, Mission-G focused on reaching ODF [Open some of the Gram Panchayat functionaries started working on waste management, which ain ten October year strategy 2019. The for Ruralsanitation Sanitation in rural Strategy areas, which2019-2029 aims ofat theachieving Government the vision of India of ODF outlines Plus. to learn from. Each one has followed a distinct ‘managementsoon became model’ school ofoffering practice insights, for other and GPsthe sustained, and every village has access to solid intelligence required to run a waste management andODF-Plus liquid waste entails management that ODF systems. behaviours Putting are in unit at Gram Panchayat level. The cases presented place solid waste management systems was part
below are some of the samples that may help Gramof the PanchayatSwachh Bharat functionaries Mission-G from Guidelines Kerala, ofTamil the Caseillustrate – 1 Mudichur,how they went (Tamil about Nadu): doing it. Nadu,2014-19 Karnataka, as well. Andhra Hence, somePradesh, of theChhattisgarh, proactive Mudichur Gram Panchayat is in Kacheepuram district of Tamil Nadu. The total upWest solid Bengal waste and management Sikkim, who units. touched the ODF finish-line much ahead of others, started setting population is 15,000 (census, 2011) and the number of households is 5326 (2012). There phenomenon. Therefore, the Gram Panchayats Sanitation until recently was an urban are 12 wards with 520 shops and two marriage halls. Solid waste management (SWM) system sweeping and drainage cleaning. Managing solid has been put in place by the Gram Panchayat waste(GPs) at have Gram not Panchayat been bothered level implies beyond ‘putting street because of the confidence given by an NGO called sanitationHand-in-Hand workers – that (‘Green is known Friends’ for its asSHG they linked are in place a system’ that never existed before. It locallymicro creditknown). related The NGO works. is involved The NGO in trained education 26 disposalrequires end-to-endof waste. In planning other words, - starting a waste from and training of the community, cadres and offer door-to-door waste collection to scientific technical handholding as well. There is supervisor
Gramoday Sankalp 45 every household and shop. The GP leader is of the opinion that he does not insist on payment appointed by NGO overseeing and reporting to the Panchayat. The leadership provided by the Panchayat President is extraordinary, who is in by some poor families and petty shops run by his 40s. aged persons. The deficit is made up by the extra income earned by local SHGs who sell drinking Door-to-door waste collection takes place, water from an RO Plant at Rs.12/- for a can of 20 and the households take the responsibility of Litres. The GP has leased out the RO Plant for the segregating waste before they hand it over to the earnedSHGs to through run. This RO is aPlant kind helpsof cross-subsidy make up the model loss Green Friends who go round regularly. Where that works wonderfully well. The extra income a household has mixed up waste, the ‘Green community. shedFriends’ (like insist a Material on that Recoverybe segregated Facility), and wheregiven. incurred in running the SWM Unit for the same The wastes collected are brought to a common Case – 2 Pratapadityanagar (West Bengal): tothe come wet wasteand take. goes The into residual vermi-composting, waste is sent andto a the recyclables are accumulated for scrap dealers Pratapadiyanagar in South 24 Parganas dump-yard. havein West developed. Bengal runs This a SWMis a Unit,large whichPanchayat they call Eco-Park because of the green vision they under Thethe Swachhfacilities Bharath (one-time Mission. expenditure) The average have been provided by the district administration with a population of about 33,000 (7500 HH). This Eco-park is close to Kakdwip, which is a lakhs.monthly Major operational portion of expenditure the income reportedcome from is vibrant business centre for petal leaves, and Rs.1.6 lakhs, and the average income is Rs.1.3 households and shops that pay monthly user Pratapadityanagarfishing activity in the GP port to generate/ coastal areaown nearby.source revenuesThese things almost give equal bounteous to a Town advantage Panchayat. to sale proceeds of the dry wastes are given to the Greenfees, besides Friends regular as monthly sale of incentive. vermi-compost. They work The convertedIt has 21 as Gram the location Sansads, for several waste segregation shops and enhancement activity they want to pursue. marketplaces. A local burial ground has been until 12.30 noon, and go home to do any income NGOand processing called: Amara unit. TheSushama SWM UnitJalaprapat was started (ASJ) For the Gram Panchayat [because of the fromin 2016, East with Midnapore. technical assistance from a local ifSWM they Unit], insisted every on month collecting there user is a fees deficit from of Rs.30,000/- The GP can easily make up the loss Having been trained by the ASJ, the GP has 46 June 2020 in40 waste sanitation collection. workers Two and of a the supervisor. mini vans There are regularlyare 11 tri-cycles hired and and paid three for a mini tipping vans charge involved on households and restaurants are composted. They a monthly basis. Kitchen waste collected from make both vermi-compost as well as ordinary compost. They sell a Kg at Rs.10 and Rs.6 therespectively. Panchayat’s They resolution, dry wastes all (suchthe households, as bottles, plastics, cardboards) are sold to recyclers. As per and petal leaf markets pay monthly user charges shops, restaurants, marriage halls, vegetable Projects’ and all the locations as ‘Bharandhavan’. The state government has deputed staff (from at different rates as decided by the Gram Sabha. Payment from the entire category of service-users this purpose. They are called District Resource is regular. There are 104 destitute households Block Development Offices) exclusively for that live on government pension. They have been up waste management unit in a cluster of Gram exempted from paying the user fee. In fact, there Persons (DRPs). Each DRP is in-charge of setting Theare 51GP pays more the destitute monthly families pension that of such are families eligible fromto get the government own source pension revenue but of theare Panchayat.on the wait. Panchayats – comprising 4 – 5 GPs.
The average monthly income reported is waste Theproject model is in is place simple and with is operational a check-list in ofa given18 elements Gram Panchayat. to fulfil for The recognising technology that used a zero for Rs.2.84 lakh. The expenditure incurred is Rs.2.97 lakh. The income from sale of vermi-compost converting kitchenkitchen waste (wet) are, waste NARDEP into bedscompost and totaland other income. dry The wastes rest ofworks the income out to Rs.40,000comes from – vermi-compost beds. They are put to use for Rs.45,000/- per month, which is hardly 15% of the user charges from various categories of waste gold’. They have a dry waste segregation shed, generators only. Still there is a small negative wherethat are they sold keep with asegregated brand name: items ‘Amaravathi such as thegap Gram (deficit) Panchayat. in the incomePratapadityanagar and expenditure. Gram bottles, plastics, cardboards etc. to be sold to the This deficit is being met out of the own funds of Panchayat stands as a real school of practice in thescrap scrap dealers. dealers. Plastics It is said and that bottles used collected plastics and are shredded into granules before they are sold to
CaseSWM –for 3 Pakala,any Gram (Andra Panchayat Pradesh): to learn from. bottles in granule form (i) are ready for reuse, and (ii) fetch better price from scrap dealers. Wastes The Government of Andhra Pradesh in late from shops, restaurants, and other institutions. are collected not only from households, but also There are no user fees charged. It is projects across districts in the State. They are reported that the state is yet to make a decision 2017 set in motion over 100 waste management
‘Solid Wealth Processing Centres’, as put across fromabout MGNREGS, collecting user and fees.with Thethe Unitssupport have of beenSwachh set inby rural the staff areas deputed of the tostate. set upThe these author units. visited The up with labour and material components drawn plan is to progressively cover 3200 locations Pakala Gram Panchayat in Chittor District of constructed in a fenced area. They have made the Andra Corporation. Segregation shed has been set up managing solid waste in Andra Pradesh. Andra Pradesh to get a feel of the system being best use of MGNREGS to be able to construct / set up the Pakala Solid Wealth Processing Centre, The State calls the SWM Units as: ‘Zero Waste Gramoday Sankalp 47 reports a local Elected Representative. in rural areas of India. It implies that whatever
can be done at the household level should be With regard to logics and equipment, there are also equipment used in the Unit that ofdone multiple at the households household level.at ward If notlevel, possible at Gram at besides the regular waste collection vehicles, Panchayathousehold level level, or then at Cluster the possible of Panchayats association level cleans up dust from plastic covers, plastic waste run on electric power. They include: blower that of view of doing ‘good’ to the environment or as a may be designed. Waste collection from the point wasteshredders, takes and place. glass The crushers daily waste - all provided collection, by it the is state. Daily collection of both wet waste and dry medicalSome necessity of the commonalitiesis admirable. and insights we components this model has are: (i) collection reported, ranges from 700 to 800 kgs. Two more are: market areas, and (ii) animals laying ground to draw from all the three cases we studied above of construction debris from the residential and close to towns, which are almost like town • Two of the three GPs studied are located bury dead animals found on the streets. Panchayats. Villages at the vicinity of cities and towns tend to generate more waste The unit with a barbed-wire fence has been compared to the ones that are remote and put to good use by growing many tree species interior. wasteand vegetables. segregation This place. has madeThose them involved address in waste this collection,place as ‘Brindhavan’ and segregation instead under of this being project called are a • NGOsAll the / threeSociety SWM / CSRs units who studied are willing have the to offersupport technical of not onlyguidance, BDO or[and DRDA, often but times also called:The ‘Green District Ambassadors’. Resource Persons (DRPs) training and IEC support] as well. across various districts in AP, within a period of work with a target of setting up 3200 units all the one located in a typical Indian village • (Pakala,Two of the AP) GPs does collect not collectuser charges, user charges whereas as three years i.e. by the end of 2020. They could not provide income and expenditure statements for this purpose. Even in GPs where user it is supported by a Corporation developed because the units were financially supported charges are collected, not all the households by the Swachh Andra Corporation in full, about pay user charges. ofwhich the Additionalwe were a littleDirector halfhearted of Rural that Development, it may not Governmentbe a sustainable of solution.Andhra However,Pradesh, thewho opinion was • In two of the GPs where waste to wealth is instrumental in setting up Brindhavans was that Unit’s kitty comes from user charges, and attempted, the highest contribution to SWM it must be viewed as a public health issue or hardly 15 – 20% comes from the sale of Analysispublic health of the emergency. Cases Presented: vermi-compost or sale of recyclable items. • ordinaryThe idea compost of making – for products instance, from washing waste powdermaterials from - beyondorange vermi-compostpeels, or eggshell and with atThere the ismost profound immediate truth (or behindlocal) level this [atstatement Gram Panchayats] that ‘social that issues is shouldconsistent be dealtwith –powder even if from we eggshellsplay down etc. the are issue good, of butthe their resolution’. In development parlance it is effortsthere is required a need forto market additional such expenditure products. expressed as ‘subsidiarity principle’. Subsidiarity At Pratapadiyanagar (WB), they do only is an organising principle which is based on the the lowest appropriate level. This principle should vermi-composting and ordinary composting; understanding that issues should be handled at recyclers. They largely depend on user and the recyclable items are sold to the be the driving force of solid waste management 48 June 2020 need not scare away Gram Panchayats from takingis a challenge. up waste management. However, operational All that is expensesrequired is a pragmatic understanding of waste to wealth
approach- not an overstated when it comes one – notto estimating a fantasised where one. Gram Panchayats should follow a no-nonsense
income flows from; and what kind of expenses wasteare inevitable management at all. activityA very crucialshould question ask himself/ that every GP functionary who is about to take up
charges, which is forthcoming. The deficit other words, is my purpose ‘clean village’ or reorientingherself is: What my village is my taketo get on involved Clean Village? in ‘waste In fromis because paying nearly user 104 charges, destitute whichfamilies is and a small shop keepers have been exempted Otherwise, Pratapadiyanagar GP proves that management business’? Getting into waste conscious decision by the Gram Panchayat. calculated,management if that as ais business what the propositionplan is. It does should not collect user charges at differential rates from be deliberately designed, and painstakingly it’s possible to breakeven if we properly different category of service users. Perhaps, from the perspective of ‘livelihoods promotion’. just happen on its own. This is not a bad idea also, provided the Elected Representatives ‘Solid waste management’ is an important arethis willing is possible to charge in all the otherusers. threeSecondly, GPs component that must go into Gram Panchayat the GPs need to pay attention on reducing Development Plan (GPDP). It’s good it is prepared
it must pay for itself – at least within a period of complicatingthe expenses things by prudent taking waste the advice collection of in the form of a viable business model, meaning consultantsarrangement, who and have simplification vested interests rather than/ or model2 to 3 years.with Therefore,regard to whatwaste perspective management. a Gram It Panchayat can adopt on generating a business half-baked ideas. • merelyAnd finally to andmanage most wasteimportantly, or keep one needsclean. should be a model that creates value to the to take note of the fact that a GP exists not citizens, and so people are willing to pay for. Waste development functions a Gram Panchayat management at the GP level must be viewed like There are several other socio-economic thea social insights enterprise. we get The from intent case is studies not profit, across but Management should not overshadow or hide statescommon are good instructive at an economicand enlightening. breakeven. Thus, fromhas toview take all upother and development implement. works Waste a Gram Panchayat is supposed to take up. Be prudent in listing out your development What is clear as of now – not very innovative agenda, where, certainly waste management arethough willing - is toit levyis possible a service to charge/user meet the operational fees from everyexpenses, household, provided every the Electedshop, every Representatives restaurant Lessonsmust to be Learn a critical issue to address. For a Gram Panchayat, there are many etc. Two cases (Case – 1 & 2) clearly indicated it. A sources of funds to meet the capital cost for corollary to this is that the users would be willing wasteto pay, management provided GPs system. are able That to itdemonstrate works. That atit least in a few a wards, to begin with, a functional setting up a waste management unit. It can be Swachh Bharat Mission-G, MGNREGS, XV-FC and is regular.Some And lessons that it we is canreliable. distil from these case so on. The Panchayats have to plan about the operational expenses (running expenses), which Gramoday Sankalp 49 studies are presented below for easy grasp. guidancementoring / the institution required withhandholding. experience / cities and towns, where people strongly expertise in waste management for getting 1. Let’s begin in villages that are close to
5. Realise that waste management is more a villagesfeel waste where as a peoplereal problem. already Thefeel chancesthat it’s of gaining firm grounding is high in Simplify.socio-psychological Build a problem,strong management rather than a problem that technologies can solve. cities and towns. By rural standards, it is system. Investment in infrastructure must herea problem. that the Select waste a generationset of villages high. close to ‘machineries / technologies that magically convertsbe kept toall thewastes minimal. into manure’ Regarding take the it 2. A budgeting exercise at the GP level seems with a pinch of salt. andto be determine a must. It allowswhich acategory mental dry of runusers of shallhow muchpay how is likely much to service be the charge expenditure; so that for household level waste segregation. 6. There must be IEC activities taking place is collected through user charges. Many up to 80 - 85% of the expenditure incurred householdsLet the households towards takehome responsibility.composting. Consider the possibility of preparing the wereSWM drawnUnits closed into it downwith the after idea a shortof waste stint, to household level – composting it. Dry waste especially because the GPs functionaries Let them manage the kitchen waste at appropriately. can be collected once a week, and treated wealth, without having done any exercise 7. Our message to the community should on the likely operational expenditure, and the sources of income to meet the expenses. Waste management is labour-intensive. not be: You create waste, we are here to category of users of waste collection manage. Rather it must be to move towards 3. serviceDetermine (households, deferential shops, rates forrestaurants, different progressive reduction of waste from being generated in the first place.Dr R Ramesh PhD marriage halls, and other establishments) Associate Professor, CRI and have it approved by the Gram Sabha. Develop a by-law for waste management at Panchayati Raj lawGP level for wasteas prescribed management by the at Solid GP level Waste is National Institute of Rural Development & Management Rules – 2016. A model by- Hyderabad – 500 030 available for download at NIRDPR website. 4. The GPs should identify an NGO or a e-mail: [email protected]
50 June 2020 Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan launched to boost employment and livelihood opportunities for migrant workers
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 20 June, 2020 launched a massive employment -cum- rural public works Campaign named ‘Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan’ to empower and provide livelihood opportunities in areas/ villages witnessing large number of returnee migrant workers affected by the devastating COVID-19. The Abhiyaan was flagged off from village Telihar, Block Beldaur, district Khagaria, Bihar on June 20 (Saturday) through Video-Conference attended by the CMsPrime and MinisterRepresentatives interacted of thethrough 6 Participating remote video States, conferencing Various Union with theMinisters villagers and of others.Telihar in the
launched. The Prime Minister inquired from some of the migrants their current state of employment Khagaria District of Bihar from where the Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan was formally to them. and also whether the various welfare schemes launched during the Lockdown period were available
Shri Modi expressed satisfaction after his interaction and pointed out how rural India stood its ground in the fight against COVID-19 and how it is providing an inspiration to the whole country and the world in this moment of crisis. PM said that both the Center and the State Governments were concerned about the welfare of the poor and the migrants.
The Prime Minister said the AatmaNirbhar Bharat Campaign itself was launched with a 1.75 Lakh Crore package under PM Garib Kalyan Yojana. He said the Central and State Government also ran specialPM Shramik termed Express this day Trains as a historic for the migrantday as a labour massive who campaign wished kickstartedto return homes. for the welfare of the
youth, sisters and daughters living in our villages. It is our endeavor that through this campaign workerspoor, for andtheir workers employment. are given This work campaign near home,is dedicated he said. for The our Primelabor brothersMinister announcedand sisters, thatfor thean
amount of Rs 50,000 Crores would be spent for building durable rural infrastructure under the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan.
housingHe for said the 25 poor, work Plantations, areas have provision been identified of drinking for employmentwater through in Jal villages, Jeevan formission, development Panchayat of Bhavans,various works. community These 25toilets, works rural or projects mandis, are rural related roads, to meetother the infrastructure needs of the likevillages Cattle like Sheds, rural Anganwadi Bhavans etc.
Gramoday SankalpSource: PIB51 Gramoday Sankalp English Edition March, 2020 RNI No: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Garib KalyanVolume 1 RojgarNo. 7 Abhiyaan web portal launched Union Minister of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar launched the web portal of the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan through video conferencing from ruralNew Delhi.infrastructure The Garib creation Kalyan programme Rojgar Abhiyaan of the Governmentis the massive of India employment which was generation-cum- inaugurated on to20th returnee June 2020 migrant by Prime workers Minister at their Shri native Narendra places Modi with the objective of providing employment for next four months, because of the situation arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar expressed happiness at the launch of the portal which besides providing information to the public about the various district-wise and scheme-wise components returneeof the Abhiyaan, migrant will workers also help per todistrict. monitor Shri the Tomar progress said of that completion the Union of Governmentthe works being in coordination undertaken with a fund outlay of Rs. 50,000 crore in 116 districts of 6 states, where there are more than 25000 with the State Governments has been successful in dealing with the difficult situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic
The launch of the web portal was followed by a workshop for the Central Nodal Officers of the and116 identifiedDistrict Administrations districts in which in Secretary,implementing Rural and Development, monitoring Shri the Nagendraprogress ofNath the Sinha works outlined under the roles and responsibilities of the various Ministries involved, and the concerned State Governments
Abhiyaan for ensuring their timely completion. Representatives of the Ministries of Railways, Road Transport & Highways, Mines, New & Renewable Energy, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Environment & Forests, Petroleum & Natural Gas, Telecom, Agriculture, Panchayati Raj, Border Roads Organization, and various Rural Development departments gave detailed presentations for the benefit of the Nodal Officers. Source: PIB
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