State level Honour for the Well Performing GPWSCs Punjab Chief Minister S. Parkash Singh Badal honoured 22 Gram Panchayat Water & Sanitation Committees (GPWSCs) at a State level award function held on 25.04.2013, at Kissan Bhawan, Chandigarh. Function was organized by State Programme Management Cell, Mohali in association with World Bank. S. Virsa Singh Valtoha, Chief Parliamentary Secretary attended the function as a special invitee. Awards were distributed to honour and motivate well performing GPWSCs which are not only operating & maintaining Water Supply Schemes on self sustainable basis but have also generated surplus revenue after meeting all the Operation & Maintenance costs by targeting more than 90% consumers. As per eligibility criteria only those villages in which more than 90% households have private water connections and are maintaining their respective water supply schemes on sustainable basis for more than an year, were considered for award. Sh. Suresh Kumar, IAS, PSWSS addressing the GPWSCs at the award function First State Level award conferred to Sh. Amarjit Singh, Chairman, GPWSC Naushera MESSAGE “One can light a candle or curse the darkness” In our constant endeavor to provide potable water and better sanitation facilities to the rural populace of Punjab, the newsletter; Nirmal Jal is a significant step forward. It gives me immense pleasure to present the current issue of Nirmal Jal; a window to the future plans, progress and strides made by the Department of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, Punjab. I am extremely happy that this year State level awards have been given by Chief Minister, Punjab S. Parkash Singh Badal on 25.4.2013 to encourage and motivate the best performing Gram Panchayat Water and Sanitation Committees (GPWSCs). GPWSCs are being encouraged to adopt 24X7 continuous metered drinking water supply. Till date 22 villages have achieved 24X7 metered water supply. The percentage of self sustainable schemes is improving and to further improve their self sustainability, options with Public Private Partnership (PPP) are being explored. In addition to this, to ensure the sustainability of sources and in anticipation of the future requirements, options of shifting sources from ground water to surface water are being reviewed. During FY 13-14, the Department has fixed the target of covering 1539 habitation with drinking water supply with the financial outlay of Rs. 595 crore. Sewerage schemes in 41 villages are targeted to be commissioned upto March 2014, out of 98 villages proposed to be covered with solid free sewerage system. Substantial achievement has been made for the procurement of these schemes. Bidder's Conferences are being organized, so as to create awareness amongst the prospective bidders, increase the participation and to get the competitive rates Approval has been accorded by the State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM) to make the provision of providing metered water supply connection to each and every household in all the new water supply schemes. The Mission has also approved the waiver of existing Water Connection Fee of Rs. 500/- per household (Rs. 250/- for SC household) to ensure 100% connectivity to every household in the rural areas. A State of the Art Laboratory is being set-up at SAS Nagar, for the testing presence of Uranium and Other Heavy Metals with the technical guidance of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. In addition Punjab Govt. has sent two projects on Liquid Waste Management to Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Govt. office of India for Financial Assistance namely: 1. Assistance of Rs. 3012 crore for providing Small Bore/Solid Free Sewerage System in 556 villages of State where population is more than 3000 persons. 2. Assistance of Rs. 762 crore for Rejuvenation of 17255 village ponds in Rural Areas of Punjab covering area of 24406 acres. Punjab State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Policy is being framed keeping in mind the need for institutional and investment reforms in the rural water supply and sanitation sector and with the aim for sustainable development and management of available water resources to meet current and future needs for domestic uses, sanitation and hygiene. The State Govt. has approved 30 Sub Division Engineers, 120 Junior Engineers and 30 Junior Draftsmen and recruitment process has also been started which will help in smooth implementation of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes. Clearly a lot has been achieved but much more needs to be done, I hope that we must be able to accomplish all our targets in the coming months, serve proficiently ensuring the self sustainability of the assets created, keeping pace the latest technical innovations and giving due consideration to the social aspects. Suresh Kumar, IAS Principal Secretary Water Supply & Sanitation Department, Punjab. July-Sept 2013 Editor : Er. A.K. Soni Year - 3rd No. 9 Editorial Board: Er. P.R. Sharma,Er. S.C. Gupta, Er. Gurpreet Singh, Er. Karanbir Singh, Er. D.K. Bhasin Every drop of water counts!
Transcript
State level Honour for the Well Performing GPWSCs
Punjab Chief Minister S. Parkash Singh Badal honoured 22 Gram Panchayat Water & Sanitation Committees (GPWSCs) at a State level award function held on 25.04.2013, at Kissan Bhawan, Chandigarh. Function was organized by State Programme Management Cell, Mohali in association with World Bank. S. Virsa Singh Valtoha, Chief Parliamentary Secretary attended the function as a special invitee. Awards were distributed to honour and motivate well performing GPWSCs which are not only operating & maintaining Water Supply Schemes on self sustainable basis but have also generated surplus revenue after meeting all the Operation & Maintenance costs by targeting more than 90% consumers. As per eligibility criteria only those villages in which more than 90% households have private water connections and are maintaining their respective water supply schemes on sustainable basis for more than an year, were considered for award.
Sh. Suresh Kumar, IAS, PSWSS addressing the GPWSCs at the award function
First State Level award conferred to Sh. Amarjit Singh, Chairman, GPWSC Naushera
MESSAGE“One can light a candle or curse the darkness”
In our constant endeavor to provide potable water and better sanitation facilities to the rural populace of Punjab, the newsletter; Nirmal Jal is a significant step forward. It gives me immense pleasure to present the current issue of Nirmal Jal; a window to the future plans, progress and strides made by the Department of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, Punjab.
I am extremely happy that this year State level awards have been given by Chief Minister, Punjab S. Parkash Singh Badal on 25.4.2013 to encourage and motivate the best performing Gram Panchayat Water and Sanitation Committees (GPWSCs).
GPWSCs are being encouraged to adopt 24X7 continuous metered drinking water supply. Till date 22 villages have achieved 24X7 metered water supply. The percentage of self sustainable schemes is improving and to further improve their self sustainability, options with Public Private Partnership (PPP) are being explored. In addition to this, to ensure the sustainability of sources and in anticipation of the future requirements, options of shifting sources from ground water to surface water are being reviewed.
During FY 13-14, the Department has fixed the target of covering 1539 habitation with drinking water supply with the financial outlay of Rs. 595 crore. Sewerage schemes in 41 villages are targeted to be commissioned upto March 2014, out of 98 villages proposed to be covered with solid free sewerage system. Substantial achievement has been made for the procurement of these schemes. Bidder's Conferences are being organized, so as to create awareness amongst the prospective bidders, increase the participation and to get the competitive rates
Approval has been accorded by the State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM) to make the provision of providing metered water supply connection to each and every household in all the new water supply schemes. The Mission has also approved the waiver of existing Water Connection Fee of Rs. 500/- per household (Rs. 250/- for SC household) to ensure 100% connectivity to every household in the rural areas.
A State of the Art Laboratory is being set-up at SAS Nagar, for the testing presence of Uranium and Other Heavy Metals with the technical guidance of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.In addition Punjab Govt. has sent two projects on Liquid Waste Management to Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Govt. office of India for Financial Assistance namely:
1. Assistance of Rs. 3012 crore for providing Small Bore/Solid Free Sewerage System in 556 villages of State where population is more than 3000 persons.
2. Assistance of Rs. 762 crore for Rejuvenation of 17255 village ponds in Rural Areas of Punjab covering area of 24406 acres.Punjab State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Policy is being framed keeping in mind
the need for institutional and investment reforms in the rural water supply and sanitation sector and with the aim for sustainable development and management of available water resources to meet current and future needs for domestic uses, sanitation and hygiene.
The State Govt. has approved 30 Sub Division Engineers, 120 Junior Engineers and 30 Junior Draftsmen and recruitment process has also been started which will help in smooth implementation of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes. Clearly a lot has been achieved but much more needs to be done, I hope that we must be able to accomplish all our targets in the coming months, serve proficiently ensuring the self sustainability of the assets created, keeping pace the latest technical innovations and giving due consideration to the social aspects.
Suresh Kumar, IASPrincipal Secretary Water Supply &
Sanitation Department, Punjab.
July-Sept 2013Editor : Er. A.K. Soni Year - 3rd No. 9
In addition to the award winning GPWSCs, 80 other well performing GPWSCs from various districts of Punjab were also invited in the function. S. Parkash Singh Badal Chief Minister Punjab reiterated the Punjab Govt's commitment to provide safe drinking water to each and every house hold in Rural Areas of Punjab. Speaking on the occasion he informed that out of 15,170 villages and Dhanis, 14313 have been covered various drinking Water Supply Schemes and remaining would be covered this year. He urged the village committees to continue their efforts to provide potable water in Rural Areas in order to check water – borne diseases. Sh. Suresh Kumar Principal Secretary Water Supply & Sanitation, Punjab congratulated the award winning GPWSCs and motivated other GPWSCs to get inspiration from them. He assured GPWSCs that Department of Water Supply and Sanitation Punjab would continue to provide them all the necessary technical support.
Department of Water Supply and Sanitation under the technical guidance of BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre), Mumbai, is setting up a Regional Advance Water Testing Laboratory at SAS Nagar for testing water samples taken from water supply schemes in Punjab. This laboratory will also cater to the water quality testing needs of neighboring states of Punjab. This will be a State of the Art Laboratory equipped with all the latest testing equipments capable of testing Uranium and Heavy Metals.. BARC, Mumbai has extended full technical support including details of necessary equipment and other infrastructure along with the details of required qualified staff to the Department for the laboratory.
Total cost of the Project is Rs. 432 lacs (Building part cost – Rs. 127 lac, Equipment part cost – Rs. 305 lac). Main Equipments to be installed in this laboratory are as under:
J Inductively Coupled Plasma mass Spectrometer
J Laser Fluorimeter
J Ion Chromatograph
J Alpha Counting System
J Low Background Beta System
J UV-Vis spectrometer
J Multi-parameter testing instrument
J Turbidity meter
Construction work of the building for the advanced laboratory has been completed upto roof level and process for the procurement of Equipments is under Progress. With the setting of this laboratory Department will be able to test samples for the presence of Uranium, which were earlier sent to BARC Mumbai for testing.
In an endeavour to innovate by adopt latest the bed. The entire filter bed is thus constantly technologies, Department of Water Supply and moving downwards. This continuous action Sanitation, Punjab is Piloting Continuous Sand enables it to filter influent containing higher Filtration Technology as an alternative to the suspended solid load.Conventional Slow Sand Filters on canal based This technology has many advantages Rural Water Supply Schemes. like continuous operation, low pressure drop,
In this process sand bed is continuously requirement of less manpower, elimination of cleaned and regenerated by internal recycling. backwashing, lesser requirement of land and easy This unique cleaning method dispenses with capacity expansion. Three such plants have backwashing. already been installed on Rural Water Supply
Schemes at Pathankot district and another three The dirty sand is carried from the lower plants are being installed in Bathinda District of part of the filter through the air lift pump up to the Punjab.sand washer in the upper part of the filter. The
cleaned sand is then returned to the upper layer of
Following GPWSCs were honoured with State Level and District Level awards
1. Naushera district Amritsar and : First award Rs. 2.00 lacs to each Singhpura district SAS Nagar
2. Paprala, Rasulpur and Railon : Second award Rs. 1.5 lac to Scheme Khurd district Roopnagar (Multi Level Committee (SLC) PapralaVillage Scheme)
3. Kot Mian Sahib district Gurdaspur : Third award Rs. 1.00 lac to GPWSC Kot Mian Sahib
Chanarthala Bathinda First Rs. 75,000
Gahri Baba Singh Bathinda Second Rs. 50,000
Khanpur Hoshiarpur First Rs. 75,000 Langroya SBS Nagar First Rs. 75,000 Mirpur Jattan SBS Nagar Second Rs. 50,000
Malsian Bhai Ke Ludhiana First Rs. 75,000
New Rajguru Nagar Ludhiana Second Rs. 50,000
Kalra Jalandhar First Rs. 75,000 Thalla Jalandhar Second Rs. 50,000 Panchatta Kapurthala First Rs. 75,000 Chitamali Ropar First Rs. 75,000
Abiana Khurd Ropar Second Rs. 50,000
Jatiwal Patiala Second Rs. 50,000 Manhera Jattan Fatehgarh Sahib First Rs. 75,000 Dedran Fatehgarh Sahib Second Rs. 50,000 Sitabgarh SAS Nagar First Rs. 75,000
State Level Awards:
District Level Awards:GPWSC District Award Award Amount
Piloting of Continuous Sand Filter Technology
Continuous Sand Filter installed at Water Supply Scheme Sarti Bangla, Block Dhar, Distt. Pathankot
Working of CSF SUSTAINABILITY
THROUGH INNOVATION
Setting- up of Regional State of Art Water Testing Laboratory at SAS Nagar, Punjab.
Prospective View of Regional Advance Water Testing Laboratory at SAS Nagar
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
Keep the environment clean
State Program Management Cell, Department of Water Supply and critical for sustainable development. He also threw light on the procurement Sanitation (DWSS) convened a bidders' conference on 22.5.2013 at Kissan relationship among World Bank, Borrower and Contractor/ Bhawan, Sector – 35 Chandigarh. The main aim was to evoke greater participation of prospective bidders in the tendering process.
In the inaugural address Sh. D. S. Cheema, Chief Engineer cum Program Director, SPMC, Mohali, after extending welcome to all the participants gave brief introduction about e-tendering process.
Sh. S. R. Aggarwal, Chief Technical Coordinator, SPMC, Mohali, explained in detail and informed that tenders for sewerage and water supply works worth approximately Rs. 300.00 crore are awaiting response from the prospective bidders. It was made clear by the CTC that the funds are available with the Department. This was followed by a power point presentation by SPMC highlighting the important aspects of procurement as well as eligibility criteria for tendering in the PRWSS Project. Thereafter, Mr. Shashi from M/s ITI Ltd. Bangalore the service provider for e-procurement delivered a presentation concerning Punjab Govt's e-procurement portal and elaborated in detail to all the participants about the important features of the e-tendering system.
After completion of presentations, the house was thrown open for discussions with the bidders and replies to the various queries raised by them were given by the procurement specialists.
Sh. D. Kumar, Senior Procurement Consultant World Bank inform Consultants. While highlighting the problems such as wastage of time and that in reducing poverty World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical efforts etc. in case of rejection and rebidding of tenders due to unreasonably assistance to developing countries. Procurement principles and processes in high quoted rates and unusual conditions he further emphasized to go through World Bank Project ensure economy & efficiency, equal opportunity to the term and conditions of the bid documents and submit/ quote reasonable everybody, development of domestic contractors and transparency which is prices.
In order to improve the sustainability of Rural Water Supply and 4. Sewerage schemes on PPP ModelSewerage Schemes, Department of Water Supply and Sanitation is exploring Assessment of Non-PPP Schemes and key comparison of PPP and options in Public Private Partnership mode. In this context, a National level Non-PPP managed schemes was also discussed. Potential PPP models like Workshop was organized in association with World Bank in Hotel Mountview, O&M contract and O&M contract with capital investment were discussed in Sector 10, Chandigarh on 24.05.2013. Sh. Sujoy Mojumdar, Director MoDWS, detail. Mr. Abdul Motaleb, Senior Water & Sanitation Specialist, WSP World Sh. Satyabrata Sahu, Joint Secretary, MDWSS, Sh. Srinivasa Rao Podipireddy, Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh TTL, World Bank Punjab Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Project, Mr. Abdul i n h i s p r e s e n t a t i o n Motaleb, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, WSP World Bank, Dhaka, discussed the PPP model Bangladesh and Mr. Rakesh Bangera, Director CRISIL infrastructure Advisory being implemented in also participated in the Workshop. Bangladesh Rural Water
Sh. Suresh Kumar, Supply & Sanitation Project Principal Secretary Water (BRWSSP). He informed Supply & Sanitation, Punjab that under the project welcomed the Chief Guest advanced public private S. Virsa Singh Valtoha, service delivery mechanism C h i e f P a r l i a m e n t a r y has been developed. World Secretary, Punjab and all Bank is providing Capital the participant from Govt. of Funding for improving India, World Bank, CRISIL, Water Supply Services in delegates from Bangladesh Rural Areas in Bangladesh. a n d o f f i c e r s o f t h e 125 Rural Water Supply department. He briefed Schemes are being developed to PPP arrangement. The key objective of about the PPP concept and BRWSSP is to ensure safe water supply to citizens with full coverage, full
further deliberated that options in PPP may be many but the best suited options operation and maintenance and partial capital cost recovery, while ensuring in local context should be selected. Chief Guest S. Virsa Singh Valtoha, CPS, sufficient supply to meet different demand needs.Punjab in his address emphasized that DWSS officers should work hard and Sh. Manish Kumar from World Bank, WSP discussed paradigms and ensure that the potable water is supplied to the consumers experiences in O&M motivation for PPP in Water Supply Schemes. Mr. Rakesh
In the first presentation, Er. N.K. Dhir Superintending Engineer, Bangera, Director CRISIL infrastructure advisory, discussed PURA (Providing Water Supply & Sanitation Circle, Chandigarh shared his insight experience Urban Amenities in Rural Areas) concept. Er. R.P. Gupta, Executive Engineer, and understanding about the PPP in Rural Water Supply Sector. He shared his Department of Water Supply & Sanitation, Punjab deliberated in detail experience of PPP in RWS schemes of Morinda Block Distt. Ropar. functioning of SCADA System in Rural Water Supply Schemes.
Sh. Sujoy Mojumdar, Director MoDWS informed that Govt. of India is Sh. Srinivasa Rao Podipireddy, TTL, World Bank Project, spending heavily for providing RWS Schemes. Nothing much has been tried by acknowledged that Punjab is the state where different PPP Models can be tried GOI in PPP mode, he appreciated the initiative taken by Govt. of Punjab. and other states can follow.
Mr. Jignesh Desai & Mr. Achin Biyani discussed the ongoing PPP Sh. Suresh Kumar, PSWSS thanked all the participant and advised models being tried in Punjab: to ensure the participation of representatives from rural areas also in such
future Workshops so as to develop an acceptable PPP mode for rural water 1. Block on contractsupply schemes.2. RO type PPP Model
3. Canal based single village Water Supply Scheme
World Bank Procurement Specialist Sh. D. Kumar addressing the Bidders' Conference
Bidders Conference
S. Virsa Singh Valtoha, CPS Punjab lighting the lamp
Department of Water Supply and Sanitation Punjab is implementing
World Bank Aided Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in demand
driven and community participatory mode. Gram Panchayat Water and
Sanitation Committees (GPWSCs) are constituted to implement and operate the
schemes. GPWSCs are guided to fix the tariff and collect bills from the
consumers to cover its cost of Operation and Maintenance. To ensure long term
sustainability GPWSC should be able to generate adequate revenue for
successful running and upkeep of water supply and sanitation schemes.
All the data entry is done by the computer operator and GPWSC is
instantly supplied copies of bills, ledger and cash book every month.
iii. Nominal Cost: Cost of computerization is very nominal. Computer
operator Charges Rs 3/- per month per bill. In district Moga it was observed that some GPWSCs were not able to
iv. Saving in the accounting Cost : Earlier GPWSC were paying recover user charges from the consumers, consequently they were not able to
accountants a monthly charge of Rs 1500-2500 per month for pay electricity bills to PSPCL and their electric connections were disconnected. It
maintaining cash book and ledger only and no bills were issued to was observed that these GPWSCs were not able to maintain their books of
consumer. Now GPWSC has to pay Rs 300-1200 per month accounts properly and failed to devise adequate revenue recovery mechanism.
(depending upon no. of connections) to generate cash book, ledger Consumers did not pay the bills as there was no transparency.
and individual house hold bill. It has reduced accounting cost of DPMC Moga took the initiative and guided GPWSCs to go in for
GPWSC by 30-50%.computerization of their books of accounts, generation of computerized water
v. Transparency and accountability: Since every consumer gets profit tariff bill and monthly profit and loss account of the GPWSC.
and loss account of GPWSC every month abridged with its water bill. Key features of computerized billing system:
He can examine the financial transactions of the GPWSC and it gives i. Bye laws of GPWSC: GPWSC passes its bye laws indicating amount him sense of confidence that his money is not misutilized or
of monthly tariff, due date for payment of bill, penalty for late payment misappropriated. It results in increased willingness on the part of and un-authorized use of water supply etc. consumer to pay.
ii. Simple Procedure :GPWSC is required to supply following
documents for billing As a result of computerization of accounts balance sheets of these
a. Office copies of Receipt Book GPWSCs have shown a remarkable improvement in their finances, now they b. Copy of bank statement obtained from bank have surplus profits in their Bank Accounts and all these schemes have been c. Photo copy of Bills of the Expenditure incurred by the GPWSC during made functional and self sustainable.
