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W-11031/1/2002-TM II
Government of India
Ministry of Rural Development
Department of Drinking Water Supply

9th Floor, Paryaravan Bhawan,
CGO Complex, Lodhi Road
New Delhi-110003
27th June, 2005

To

The Secretaries in charge of Rural Development / PHED in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, J & K, Meghalaya, Sikkim & Uttaranchal.

Subject : Organising Communication Strategy Workshop for taking up IEC activities in TSC.

Sir/ Madam

As you are aware proper implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) requires effective communication at the village level. TSC gives lot of emphasis on IEC and awareness generation. We in association with UNICEF have developed National Communication Strategy as well as prototype of district communication strategy. To roll out this communication strategy, four workshops have been organized at Lucknow, Jaipur, Bangalore and Bhuwaneshwar for UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Assam, MP, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Considering the importance of IEC in sanitation promotion, it is decided to organize similar workshops for other remaining states at Delhi. The workshop for your state will be organized during 19th to 20th July 2005 at Hotel Metropolitan Nikko near Gol Dakkhana, New Delhi. We propose that 4 persons from State level who are dealing with TSC and more specifically IEC matters (including the consultants working in CCDU) may be nominated. In addition, 4 persons from any of the TSC districts in your state should be nominated who are handling the responsibility of TSC implementation and more specifically dealing with IEC activities in the district. In the workshop, they would develop a district communication plan for their district and this team of officials from state and district would be expected to work as resource persons and organize similar workshops at the state level for the remaining districts. The number of persons to be nominated by each state is given in the table below :

State State level persons No of Districts No of persons from Districts Total no of persons
J & K 4 1 4 8
H P 4 1 4 8
Haryana 4 1 4 8
Uttaranchal 4 1 4 8
Sikkim 4 1 4 8
Arunachal Pradesh 4 1 4 8
Meghalaya 4 1 4 8
Goa 4 1 4 8
Total 32 8 32 64

All the expenses for organizing the workshop including TA/ DA, boarding and lodging expenses of participants will be born by unicef. You are requested to nominate the participants for the workshop and send their list by email to Mamta Sinha, Consultant at ddws_mamta@water.nic.in or to amalhotra@unicef.org.

In the workshop, communication plan for the selected nThe list of participants may kindly be sent by 10th July. The participants may be advised to plan their travel such that they reach Delhi in the evening of 18th July, 2005 and leave Delhi in the evening of 20th July, 2005.

Thanking You,

Yours faithfully,


[ Kumar Alok ]
Director (CRSP)
Tel: 24364518
Fax: 24360102
Email: alok@water.nic.in

Copy to :

  1. Mrs. Lizette Burgers, Chief, WES, Unicef, 73 Lodi Estate, New Delhi.
  2. Mrs. Alka Malhotra, P.O. Communication, Unicef, 73 Lodi Estate, New Delhi.