Activities within the grant:
The project is towards supporting the implementation cum operations and maintenance phase, to be completed over a period of 15 months. Based on the initial groundwork and the detailed village action plans, implementation of drinking water schemes will be carried out in 300 villages and sanitation interventions will be undertaken in 150 villages. This phase would involve the following activities:

	Implementation of physical interventions for constructing water supply and sanitation infrastructure, which includes water storage structures, rooftop rainwater harvesting structures, sanitation units, etc
	Preparation of a water safety plan based on sanitary survey
	Water testing / water quality surveillance
	Collection of community contribution in the form of cash or kind, which includes 10 per cent cash contribution towards capital costs of the water supply scheme
	Community-level capacity building exercises through exposure visits, classroom sessions, workshops, etc
	Implementation of the hygiene and sanitation awareness plan and undertaking a healthy home survey
	Developing of a community monitoring and evaluation plan
	Finalisation of operation and maintenance plans
	Water resource management
	Waste water treatment activities on pilot basis.

The CADP expects to achieve the following:

	Presently, the project villages have access to around 15 litres per capita per day (LPCD) of water (quality not assured). After the commissioning of the schemes, it is expected that they would receive 40LPCD for drinking and domestic use; similarly, villages having water quality problems would receive at least 5LPCD of treated water through reverse osmosis (RO) units. The abovesaid computations have been estimated while factoring population growth for the next 30 years
	Currently the community spends 3-5 hours per household per day collecting drinking water, which should come down to 15 to 30 minutes
	Enhancing the sanitation facilities for at least 25,000 households across the 300 villages; of which, 15,000 households would be covered under the implementation phase and remaining 10,000 households during O&M phase
	Waterborne cases of diarrhoea among infants and kidney stone among adults have been reported in project villages; these should substantially reduce post interventions.

The project would also result in:

	Promoting and strengthening effective community based organisations (Pani Samitis) for effective and equitable management, operation and maintenance of the drinking water and sanitation infrastructure facilities
	Promoting environmental cleanliness and safe sanitation facilities in 300 villages
	Preserving, enhancing and rehabilitating traditional sources of water for enhancing water security at the village level
	Successfully promoting non-conventional energy powered pumping systems (on a pilot basis) in at least five villages.