1.1 For the effective implementation of Rural Water Supply Programme, availability of basic information is an essential pre-requisite. Rural Drinking Water Supply programmes intend to support the State/UT’s Governments in extending coverage in rural areas as well as to tackle water quality problems. The Statistical information about the success or failure of the programme can be assessed either by conducting census or sample surveys or obtaining data through implementing agencies. The first nation wide rural habitation survey to assess the rural drinking water supply coverage status was conducted through the State Governments in the year 1991. The results were revalidated during 1993-94, verified in 1996-97 and updated in the year 1999-2000.

1.2 In consonance with the National Agenda for Governance of the Government of India, the Rural Water Supply programme aims at providing drinking water to all rural habitation by the end of the year 2003-2004. Keeping this in view, it was felt in different forum including in the State Ministers’ Conference on Rural drinking Water Supply held on 19-20 October 2001 that a fresh survey may be conducted to ascertain the exact position of the status of the rural habitations with regard to availability of drinking water and the result of which could form the basis for developing future strategies for the programme. The guidelines for the survey have been formulated in such a way that the maximum information on ground realities can be ascertained within limited time frame and with minimum cost.

1.3 The objective of the survey is to ascertain reliable information (a) on the status of drinking water supply in rural habitations, and rural schools, (b) on the water sources tested for quality problem, details of existing safe drinking water supply system in such quality affected habitations.

2. CONDUCTING THE SURVEY FOR DATA GENERATION
In order to conduct the survey, detailed planning is necessary. The planning exercise would draw up a time frame for all the activities to be completed. Following main activities are to be planned to be undertaken for the Survey:

2.1 PRINTING OF SURVEY FORMAT
2.1.1. A set of formats (Part-I & II) is enclosed for taking more copies. The quality and size of paper and the print etc. are to be carefully selected. It is advisable to follow the uniform quality and size all over the country. The number of sets required will be one format per census village and, therefore, if the printing is done at the State level, the actual number of sets required will be equal to the total number of census villages in the State. You may have to print separately set of instructions/ guidelines for each part of the survey and the Annexes giving definition and norms and list of abbreviations. The number of these will depend upon the number of Teams and the number of Members to be engaged in each Team for the Survey. Each Member may be given a set to ensure better understanding among them. It is suggested that you may form maximum of two teams per Block.

2.1.2 The printing of all these formats, instructions/ guidelines etc. should be completed before the training is undertaken.

2.2 AGENCIES & PARTICIPANTS IN THE SURVEY
2.2.1 It is suggested that the nodal agency to conduct the survey may be the same Organisation responsible for the implementation of Rural Water Supply Programmes in the State. This may be in many cases, Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Water Board, Water Authorities, Rural Development Department or Panchayati Raj Department (PRD) Jal Nigam/ Agency. The assistance from other Government Departments/ organisations, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), Research Organisations, Colleges and Universities and Literacy and Immunization Mission may also be availed in conducting the survey.

2.2.2 For creating an environment, adequate publicity through media and people’s participation for various items of work may be ensured. The involvement of Panchayat Raj Institutions, people’s representatives and their organizations may be helpful in getting the correct information. The District Administration led by District Collector/ Deputy Commissioner/ District Magistrate/CEO of Zilla Parishad will be of immense help in organizing such a survey in the District. It is, therefore, advisable to designate him as the Chief District Coordinator of the survey. The Superintending Engineer/ Executive Engineer, in charge of the District may be designated as Joint Coordinator.

2.2.3 The actual survey may be conducted by field level officers of the nodal Department assisted by field officers of other Departments/ Organisations and public enlisted specially for this. People’s representatives from Gram Panchayats, (Sarpanchs) should also be involved from the planning stage of the survey at the local level.

2.3 TRAINING
2.3.1 Since this survey involved understanding of technical terms, a very comprehensive training on all aspects of the Survey and the data to be collected for all those involved in the training is essential. The number and the type of people required at the field level have to be assessed assuming that the survey is to be completed by 31st March, 2003.

2.3.2 It is suggested that three levels of training may be organized. (1) in the first level, the State and District level authorities i.e. officers in charge at the State level, District Collector, Superintending Engineer/ Executive Engineer etc. can be familiarized with the format and the various activities to be undertaken. Along with them, leaders of the organizations at the State and District levels participating in the survey can also be exposed to the various aspects of the survey. (2) These trained personnel can be utilized for the second level of training. The second level may include Assistant Executive Engineers, Sub-Divisional Officers, Junior Engineers, representatives of Panchayat Raj Institutions, line Departments, and Voluntary Organisations etc. It may be a good idea to put a Sub-Divisional Magistrate/ Sub-Collector as Coordinator of the survey for the area corresponding to his jurisdiction. (3) For the third and operational level functionaries like the Overseers, Work-Assistants, Health Workers, representatives of the Non-Government Organisations, Gram Sevaks, Workers of other Missions at the field level and teachers and college students are to be enlighted. The Block Development Officer can be co-ordinators for third level of training and the conduct of the actual survey. The data has to be collected using the formats in English. This is necessary for processing in computers. However, for easy understanding of process of survey by the local workers, guidelines can be translated into local language.

2.3.3 It has to be clearly understood that every habitation in the rural areas is to be covered by the survey. Therefore, only persons who are actually familiar with the habitation should be made members of the team, apart from the technical officers who are also expected to be familiar with the area. It is advisable that necessary publicity through various media is given before the survey is actually started to get the co-operation of the local people. A time schedule for the conduct of the survey be made known to the village officials, Panchyat Presidents, Self Help Group, Users Group Conveners and local people well in advance for eliciting their full cooperation. The team should visit all the habitations starting from the main habitation to ensure full cooperation of the Sarpanch/ Mukhiya and other local leaders. After collecting data from various habitations, these may be explained to the local representatives like the Gram Panchyat President/ Sarpanch.

2.3.4 The data so collected should be subjected to checks and super checks. At least 5% of the samples may be test checked by supervisory officers at sub-divisional and district levels to ensure correctness of the data. In case the Supervising and Checking officials receive any complaint formally or informally, all such information should be got super-checked personally. It is advised that the data as and when elicited should be entered into the sheet in the field itself legibly and clearly avoiding overwriting, erasing etc.

2.4 REPORTING SYSTEM

2.4.1 The data collected from the habitations for each census village has to be arranged serially following the census code number of census villages within each block and serially for the blocks as per the census code number of Blocks within each district and sent to the State headquarters for processing and preparation of the report. It is adviseable to ensure Gram Panchayat data are also available while compiling those census village wise. National Informatics Centre(NIC) will be the nodal agency for compiling and preparing reports. Since time is very short, the transmission of the collected data to the State headquarters should be done within the shortest possible time. It is suggested that this may be done within a week of compilation of the survey.

2.5 Time Schedule:

2.3.5 The survey should be conducted quickly. The report in the formats prescribed by this Department should be positively submitted by 31st March, 2003.

2.6 FUNDING OF SURVEY

2.6.1 Entire cost will be borne by the State Government for conducting the survey.

2.6.2 States have to submit the survey results by 31st March, 2003. Timely submission of the survey data would be pre-requisite for future funding both under ARWSP and Swajaldhara from 2003-04 onwards and therefore States may plan their operations for conducting the survey timely.

2.6.3 The States are also informed that survey results would be checked by independent Evaluators to be engaged by the Government of India. States may take utmost care while conducting the survey to avoid discrepancies in the results as the same would unnecessarily delay finalisation of their proposals.

3. GUIDELINES FOR FILLING UP FORMATS

PART - I

FORM-I

PART – 1 A: (i) POPULATION, COVERAGE AND SOURCE

This relates to the collection of data for all the habitations including the main habitation (i.e. census village).

(i) Code & Name
Follow the census code for the State/District/Block/ Panchayat/constituency/ census village as given in the 2001 census book. Details to be supplied by the Chief District Coordinator of the survey at district level (District Collector/ District Magistrate/ Dy. Commissioner).

(ii) Census Villages
Census village consists of a main habitation (sometimes called main village) and a number of other habitations attached to it. There may be cases where the census village may consist of a main habitation only.

(iii) Name of Habitation and code (Col.2 & 2A)
A habitation means a place where people have settled

permanently. Temporary settlement like that of quarry workers, construction workers, farm workers, nomads etc.
will not be classified as habitation.

Main habitation means the habitation which goes by the name of census village. Please enter the main habitation first; followed by the nearest habitation; the remotest habitations may be entered last. Enter the code in col.2(A)

(iv) Distance from the water source

(Col. 3)

Distance from the nearest water source means the distance to be traveled by the people of the habitation to the nearest drinking water source. If the source is inside the habitation itself, indicate this distance as ‘0’ (zero) km. If there is more than one safe source, indicate the number of water sources and distance between them (please refer definition given for safe source in Annex-I).

(v) Population As per 2001 Census (Col. 4,5,6)
Population figures as per 2001 census should be furnished. In case the population of the habitation is not given in the 2001 census, please ascertain the present population from the competent authority and enter them.

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(vi) Population covered

(Col. 7,8,9)
Population covered should be based on the existing norms for providing drinking water supply i.e. one hand pump/ one stand post/ one sanitary well per 250 persons limited to census or present population. Coverage of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) should be ascertained and entered correctly.

(vii) Coverage Status

(Col. 10)
NC (= Not Covered) for the census village means there is not even a single safe of drinking water in the village as per existing norms and guidelines of the Mission. The drinking water source/ point does not exist within 1.6 k.m. of the habitation in the plains or 100 meter elevation in hilly areas. (The source/ point may either be public or private in nature); Habitations having a source affected with quality problems such as excess salinity, iron, fluoride, arsenic or other toxic elements or biologically contaminated; Habitations where quantum of availability of safe water from any source is not enough to meet drinking and cooking needs (i.e. below 10 lpcd).

PC (= Partially Covered) means that supply of drinking water is less than 40 litres per capita per day as per the existing norms and guidelines of the Mission. Habitations which have a safe drinking water source/ point (either public/ private) within 1.6 k.m. in plains and 100 meter in hilly areas but the capacity of the system ranges between 10 lpcd to 40 lpcd, should be categorized as Partially Covered (PC).

FC (= Fully Covered) means that entire population in all the habitations including the main habitation is providing with drinking water as per the existing norms and guidelines of the Mission.

(viii) Level of Water Supply (Col.11)
The level of water supply means actual quantity of the drinking water in litre per capita per day (lpcd) provided to the population. Please enter the actual figures based on your enquiry and spot checks.

(ix) Number of

Water sources existing and Type

(Col. 12 & 12 A)
Number of water sources existing should be counted and entered in this column. The source / point may either be public or private in nature. However, habitations drawing drinking water from a private source may be deemed as covered only when the water is safe, of adequate capacity and , is accessible to all. Enter type of source in col. 12 (A)

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(x) Number of Water sources required as per norms.

(Col. 13)
Number of sources required for habitations other than main habitation – the number of sources actually required is to be calculated on the basis of one source for every 250 persons. However, if the population of the habitation is less than 250 but the habitation is located within 1.6 k.m. of another habitation or main habitation, the population can be grouped in cluster of 250 each to determine the number of sources. In case the habitation is located at more than 1.6 k.m. from the main/ nearest habitation, one source is needed independently irrespective of the population. Accordingly the number of sources required are to be worked out and entered in this column.

(xi) Number of Water sources tested for quality. (Col 14 and 15)

Type and number of water sources tested for quality should be entered in col.14 & 14 (A) and affected with water quality problem should be entered in col.15.

(xii) Public Institution

(Col. 16,17,18)
Public institutions referred to in the format are as follows with Code No. :

01. Govt. Schools – primary, middle and secondary schools
02. Govt. Hospitals – primary health centre and Sub-Centres, Dispensaries & veterinary centers.
03. Anganwadis/ Balwadis
04. Panchayat Ghar/ office
05. Market places (Shandy)

The number of institutions mentioned above should be identified. Indicate their location (habitation), number and water supply arrangement provided for the institutions(number of hand pump installed, sanitary wells, standposts provided and other water supply arrangement should be entered in these columns).

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FORM-II
PART – 1 – B: DETAILS OF EXISTING SAFE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM

(i) PIPED WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM

(i) Type of scheme (Col. 19)

Enter the type of the piped water supply scheme (pumping or gravity feed type) in this column.

(ii) Programme (Col.20)
This relates to the programme under which scheme has been implemented. Please see Annex-II for the details of programmes under which the water supply schemes are implemented. Indicate the name/ names of the programme accordingly in this column.

(iii) Date of commissioning
(Col.21)
The date of commissioning of the piped water supply schemes in the habitation is to be ascertained from the office records and entered in this column.

(iv) Design-population, year and quantity in kld

(Col.22,23,24)
Population proposed to be served at ultimate stage should be entered in these columns. The information can be obtained from the Departments/ Boards. The details of the scheme implemented for providing the habitation with safe drinking water supply facilities may be entered.

Projected year of design should be entered from the details of the scheme. This will also provide information about the ultimate capacity of the scheme for definite number of years and ultimate population.

Quantity in kld relates to the total daily requirement of safe drinking water proposed to be supplied in kilo litres (1000 litres) for ultimate design population. Enter the information from the scheme details.

(v) Details of public stand posts (Col.25 to 30)
This relates to the total number of public standposts installed in the habitation. Please indicate the number of standposts with tap and without tap separately in the column provided. The number of standposts installed in SC/ ST locality should be indicated in columns provided for.

(vi) Number of Public Standposts, with platforms and drainage arrangements (Col.31)

Enter in this column the number of public standposts having concrete platform and drainage arrangements as per site observation.

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(vii) Number of house connections (Col.32,33,34)
Number of house connections should be ascertained from the local water supply authority and verified from field survey. Break-up of house connections in SC/ ST localities should be ascertained and entered in these columns.

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FORM-III

PART – I – B: DETAILS OF EXISTING SAFE DRINKING WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS

(i) SPOT SOURCES AND OTHERS

(i) Type of system
(Col.35)
Please use code as follows:

010 Deep tube well with India Mark II (IM II) Hand Pump (HP)
020 Deep tube wells with pumps other than IM II.
030 Shallow tube wells with Tara Hand Pump
040 Shallow tube wells with pumps other than Tara HP.
050 Sanitary Dug wells with Hand Pump
060 Infiltration Wells
070 Infiltration Gallery
080 Spring Tapped Chambers (Protected)
090 Traditional Sources (Protected)
100 Rain Water Harvesting Structure
110 Tube well with Power Pump
120 Surface water source with Power Pump
130 Private source with public accessibility.
140 Others (Specify)

(ii) Date of commissioning
(col.36)
Date on which the scheme is opened for public use may be taken as date of commissioning. In case the details are not available, this may be ascertained through local enquiry.

(iii) Design-population, year and quantity kld
(col.37,38,39)
As explained in Part I (B) (iv) (Col. 22-24). However, in case of Rain Water Harvesting (Code No. 100), the per capita norm will be 10 lpcd upto March, 2002, and 20 lpcd beyond that. For ‘traditional sources’ (Code No. 090) and ‘others’ (Code No. 130) prescribed norms for per capita supply in litres per day may be adopted based on local conditions and entered in this column.

(iv) Number installed
(col.40,41)
These columns are relevant for spot sources from Code No. 010 to 050 and 110 –120 as in Col. 35.

Working – Number of spot sources working as on the date of survey should be entered in this column.

Defunct – These sources may be those sources which are not giving any water supply due to various reasons and they require replacement or rejuvenation. Such sources should be entered in this column as defunct sources as on the date of survey.

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(v) Yield (lpm)
(col.42,43)
Quantity of water available from the spot source in litres per minute (lpm) for the sources in Code 010 to 050 and 110 – 120 should be entered after actual measurement of yield of the source on the spot. (one method of measuring the yield is to fill up a container of known volume within a specified period of time, say one minute).

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FORM – IV
PART – I – C: DRINKING WATER REQUIREMENT FOR CATTLE

(i) Total number of cattle
(Col. 44)
Cattle population assessed on the basis of latest cattle census should be entered in this column. In case this is not available, information can be obtained through local enquiries.

(ii) Daily Requirement of water supply (kld) cattle
(Col.45)
This should be entered on the basis of estimated consumption of water by the cattle through local enquiries.

(iii) Existing system of water supply
(Col.46)
Indicate the type of system such as ponds, canals, ditches, oorani, springs, systems such as cattle troughs, soak pits, local water collection points etc.

(iv) Existing level of water supply (kld)
(Col.47)
The objective of this column is to ascertain whether the drinking water supply arrangement is adequate or inadequate from the existing sources. The estimated availability of drinking water, based on local enquiry, should be entered in this column.

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PART I -- FORMATS
(FORM I, II, III & IV )

PART - II
FORM – V

PART – II - A: Coverage status of rural habitation at District and State level

Status of coverage of rural habitations
(Col.48,49,50,51,52)
Status of habitation categorised as NC, PC and FC as per existing norms may be generated at district and State level and their total may be entered in these cols. separately.

FORM – VI - A
PART – II - B: Coverage status of rural school (at District and State level).

Status of coverage of rural school. (Col. 53 to 65)
Total number of Primary and upper primary rural School and their status with respect to coverage of drinking water supply should be generated at district and State level and their total may be entered in these cols. separately.

FORM – VI – B : Coverage stauts of rural high and higher secondary schools (at District and State level)

Status of coverage of rural high and higher secondary schools. (Col. 66 to 78)
Total number of rural high and higher secondary schools and their status with respect to coverage of drinking water supply should be generated at district and State level and their total may be entered in these cols. separately.

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FORM - VII
PART – II - C: DETAILS OF ON GOING SCHEMES AS ON 1-04-2002

This relates to the on going schemes or completed for the habitation under survey for providing safe drinking water supply under various programmes as given in Annexure-II. This may relate to the individual scheme (HP/ sanitary well with HP & Deep Tubewell with power pump cistern) approved for the habitation or the habitation may be one of the many habitations approved in a comprehensive piped water supply scheme. The name of habitation may be entered in column 79.

Approval letter No. and Date
(Col. 80)
Furnish the details of letter number and date of technical approval of the schemes given by the Central or State Government.

Programme
(Col. 81)
Furnish the details of programme under which the scheme was approved (for details of various programmes under which the schemes are approved, please see Annex-II.

Type of scheme
(Col. 82)
Use following Codes for type of schemes which the habitation is included for under providing safe drinking water supply as per earlier sanction:

041 Deep tube well with India Mark II Handpump (HP)
042 Deep tube well with Power Pump (PP)
043 Extended Piped Water Supply Scheme (EPL)
044 Comprehensive Piped Water Supply Scheme (CWSS)
045 Gravity feed piped water supply scheme
046 Others (Specify)

Estimated cost, original, revised
(Col. 83,84)
Original cost means the cost of schemes as approved and indicated in the approval letter mentioned. Cost approved (Rs. in lakhs) should be furnished in this column. Revised cost means cost of the scheme required for completion.

Date of commencement
(Col. 85)
Date on which the implementation of scheme started should be entered in this column, based on information collected from Chief Engineer PHED/ Suptd. Engineer, PHED/ Executive Engineer, PHED’s office.

Date of completion
(Col. 86)
Date of completion should be entered in this column for already completed schemes.

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Expenditure incurred upto March, 2002 for on-going schemes
(Col. 87)

This column refers to expenditure incurred by the State Government for on-going schemes upto 31.3.2002

Actual cost incurred for completed schemes
(Col. 88)

This column refers to the actual expenditure incurred by the State Government for the completion of the scheme.

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FORM - VIII
PART – II - D: OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

This part relates to organization and financial set-up of State Government for ensuring smooth Operation and Maintenance of Rural Water Supply Schemes in habitation.

1.Organisation responsible
The organizational responsibility has been briefly codified in terms of Government (011), Gram Panchayat (012), Community (013) and others (014). Put tick mark to the relevant code.

2. Cost & Manpower,
Annual Cost (Col. 89 to 92)
The annual cost of operation and maintenance incurred by the organization may be entered in these columns. Please enter relevant information on Plan, Non-Plan, Public contribution, other sources as indicated in the format.

Manpower Deployed
(Col. 93,94)
Please enter in these columns the technical, non-technical personnel, as deployed by the Department/ Organisation for O&M of scheme.

3. Tariff structures (Per household)

Rate per annum
(Col.95-97).
In these columns, rate of recovery of O&M cost is to be indicated. Rate per annum for House connection, Stand Post and Hand Pump as charged by the organization responsible for O&M to the beneficiaries, classified as General, SC,ST, for House connection, Stand post and Hand Pump should be entered as per Tariff structure prescribed by State PHED or Local authority for O&M of scheme.

Revenue collected Per annum
(Col. 98-100)
Amount of money collected during 2001-02 for household connection, Stand Post and hand pump by the organization responsible for O&M towards tax on water charges, based on the prevailing rates, should be entered in these columns.

4. Water Charges per household
(Col.101-106)
Rate per month and amount collected during 2001-02 from general, SC and ST household for house connection, stand post and hand pump may be entered in these columns.

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PART II -- FORMATS
(FORM V, VI VII & VIII)

GUIDELINES FOR
FIELD LEVEL OFFICERS / SURVEYORS
[ This part may be printed separately in local language for use in the District, Block, Panchayat levels ]

4. GUIDELINES FOR THE FEIELD LEVEL SURVEY
(For the use of the leader and members of the team)

4.1 GENERAL:

You are participating in a very important activity. Your understanding and good work can help greatly in the formulation of schemes and programmes for rural drinking water supply in the country. The data you collect is going to be used immediately for the preparation of programme during Tenth Five Year Plan.

Unlike other surveys, you are to collect lot of general and technical data. Therefore, it would be helpful if you understand the terms used and even the problems of rural water supply in the field before you report these through the formatssupplied to you. You may like to prepare a rough note and transfer neatly the details in the format.

4.2 GETTING READY FOR SURVEY:

Going through training at the district/ block level, understanding all the instructions and learning all the activities you have to perform (like measuring distances, conducting tests for quality of water and assessing various parameters of water) are definitely important. Please apply your mind fully into these. Alongwith this you have to get ready to go to the field to do an effective job. This would involve the following:

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(i) ADVANCE PLANNING:

You may get about six weeks for completing the first part of the survey (Form I to IV). Your team may have to cover about 20 Gram Panchayats or 100 villages during this period. Unless activities for each day are carefully planned with other members of the team, you may have difficulty in completing the work. Please prepare an advance action plan and send a copy of this to your Chief Coordinator (Block Development Officer) who in turn is expected to keep the Chief Coordinator of the District informed of your advance plan.

You may prepare advance plan also for the more elaborate work of filling in Part II of the format (Form V – VI). This involves conducting some field tests. Procuring the necessary equipments, practising to do the tests completely and learning to enter the data accurately are parts of advance planning for Part II. Your travel plan for filling in Part II should also be finalised in advance in consultation with the opinion leaders.

(ii) INVOLVING PEOPLE:

Ensure in advance the cooperation of the people. Please get in touch with the important voluntary organizations, people’s representatives and other opinion leaders. You can also take the help of officers of other Departments like doctors and paramedical staff of Health Departments, field level workers of Rural Development Department, Panchayat Raj and many others. It may be good idea.

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that you help the Chief Coordinator (BDO) to arrange a meeting of all the important people (please list them out in advance in consultation with other knowledgeable people) before the survey is started and your advance plan is finalised. In fact, you can finalise your advance plan in such a meeting.

(ii) PUBLICITY:

Giving adequate publicity to the survey would help in getting cooperation from all these leaders. The support you will get from the State through TV, Radio, Newspapers etc. can be strengthened by local publicity through local meetings, bit notices and other methods suitable to local area.

(iii) ACTUAL CONDUCT OF SURVEY:

It is presumed that you have complete understanding of the village you are going to survey. Please prepare maps in advance (scale 1:40,000 or 2.5 mm = 1.0 k.m.). You can fill in more data as you go along and prepare a detailed map after the survey on a standard drawing sheet before you send it to the Chief Coordinator. Please remember that this map you prepare will be used for national planning and monitoring.

There is need for thorough understanding of the requirements in each Form. Please read carefully the instructions for each form. Please remember that the name and other details of the main habitations are to be entered first. The order followed in Form I in listing habitations should be continued in all other Forms also.

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It is quite possible that while discussing with the villagers you may get very critical comments from them. You may listen to them carefully. Any special problems brought to your notice, but not listed in the format, can be summarized and attached to the format. However, care should be taken not to give any promise, which you cannot fulfill. Please keep in mind that the survey is only an effort to understand the problem in each habitation. Solutions to those problems would be the next stage; decisions on these will be taken only when the general picture is known through the survey.

4.3 SUBMISSION OF THE FORMATS, SUPER CHECKS ETC.:

Part-I of the formats should be arranged strictly according to the code number of the census villages and the bundle (s) so formed should be handed over to the Chief Coordinator (BDO) or any other person so authorized. Please remember that atleast 5% of the data in the forms will be subjected to super checks. In case you are required to assist these officers engaged in such super checks you should be prepared to do so. You should keep contact with the Chief Coordinator till the super checks are over.

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ANNEXES

ANNEX-I

DEFINITION AND NORMS

1.Census Village
A census village consists of number of habitations (sometimes called main village and number of other habitations attached to it) recognized in the National Census conducted in 2001.

2.Habitation
(i) A habitation means a place where people have settled permanently. Temporary settlement like that of quarry workers, construction workers, farm workers, nomads etc. will not be classified as habitation.

(ii) Main habitation:- The habitation which goes by the name of the census village is termed as main habitation.

3.Safe Source
A source is said to be safe if it is free from physical, chemical bacteriological and biological contamination and conforms to the drinking water quality standards prescribed. The recommended standards acceptable and cause for rejection for drinking water in India by WHO and BIS is as follows:

* For determination of habitation with salinity problem, TDS limit asr cause for rejection for rural areas is fxed at present at 1500 mg/l against the recommended limit of 2000 mg/l. According to convention, salinity is measured based on TDS characteristics. TDS has close co-relation with salinity.

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4. Type of Sources
The sources can be classified as follows:

(a) Ground - Openwell
Tubewells (deep/ shallow)
Infiltration gallery/ well

(b) Surface - Pond
River
Lake
Stream
Canal
Spring

(c) Rain-water - Rooftop/ ground collection of water from rain for Individual household/ community.

(d) Traditional - Local methods practiced for
collecting surface water/ rain-water/ ground water for drinking purpose. This includes khadins, nadis, tankas, ponds, ooranis, baoris, open wells, spring ditches etc.

(e) Others - Non-conventional methods of collecting drinking water as practiced by tribes and local residents.

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5. Norms

A. Problem Villages
The following norms have been adopted for categorisation of problem villages:

(a) those which do not have an assured source of water within a distance of 1.6 kms. or within an elevation of 100 metres in hilly areas.

(b) those where the available water has an excessive salinity, iron, fluoride, Arsenic, nitrate or other toxic elements; or

(c) those where diseases like cholera, AGE etc. are endemic.

B. Design
(a) In order to have maximum coverage with the limited available resources, the schemes to be taken up under the ARWSP would be designed on the basis of 40 litres per capita per day (lpcd).

(b) In case of hand pump schemes one source should be provided for every 50-300 persons. Pipe water supply schemes should be designed for supplying water through public stand-posts and house connections (where adequate drinking water is available). Norms should be developed for the number of stand-posts and have service connection in Gram Panchayat/ villages.

(c) In the desert areas (Desert Development Programme Blocks), schemes designed on the basis of a higher norms of 70 lpcd would be considered for meeting the requirement of cattle.

(d) The schemes should be framed for a designed the population in a period of 15 years. In general, the increase in the projected population for the design period should not exceed 40% of the 2001 census population.

(e) Cost effective designs evolved under the Technology Mission would be adopted under the ARWSP & State Sector (MNP).

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ANNEX-II

PROGRAMME UNDER WHICH THE WATER SUPPLY PROJECT WAS IMPLEMENTED

1. ARWSP

(a) Normal
(b) Sector Reform
(c) Sub-Mission
(d) Desert Development Programme

2. State Sector Water Supply Programme (MNP)
3. Bilateral, multi-lateral projects (External Supported Projects like World Bank, DANIDA, DUTCH, KFW).
4. Others (to be specified)

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ANNEX-III

LIST OF ABBREVIATION

ARWSP - Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme
CWSS - Comprehensive Water Supply Scheme
CDP - Community Development Programme
Coln - Column
Conc. - Concentration
DANIDA - Danish International Development Agency
DRW - Drought Relief Works
DDP - Desert Development Programme
DPAP - Drought Prone Area Programme
DUTCH - The Netherlands Government
FC - Fully Covered
HUDCO - Housing and Urban Development Corporation
HP - Hand Pump
HADP - Hill Area Development Programme
JRY - Jawahar Rozgar Yojana
JGSY - Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojna
KFW - German Government
Kld - Kilolitre per day
Km - Kilometre
LIC - Life Insurance Corporation of India
Lpm - Litres per minute
lpcd - Litres Per Capita Per Day
MNP - Minimum Needs Programme
MPN/100 - Most Probable Number per 100 mililitres
ml
MM - Mini-Mission
Mg/l - Milligram per litre
Mission - RGNDWM
mm - Mili metre
NC - Not Covered
NGO - Non-Government Organisation
NREP - National Rural Employment Programme
O&M - Operation & Maintenance.
PC - Partially Covered
PP - Power Pump
PHC - Primary Health Centre
PHED - Public Health Engineering Department
ppm - Parts Per Million
PWS - Piped Water Supply
RGNDWM - Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission
RLEGP - Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme
SM - Sub-Mission
SC - Scheduled Caste
ST - Scheduled Tribe
TDS - Total Dissolved Solids
TM - Technology Mission