Norms for Rural Water Supply in India
The study concerns norms that have been established by the Government of India in order to attain a network of facilities to provide an acceptable level of water consumption within a stipulated time frame. The term acceptable level is crucial and i...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/06/9697732/norms-rural-water-supply-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19477 |
| Summary: | The study concerns norms that have been
established by the Government of India in order to attain a
network of facilities to provide an acceptable level of
water consumption within a stipulated time frame. The term
acceptable level is crucial and it has a two-fold rationale.
First, competing demand for greater investment in other
sectors has left relatively small allocation for the
domestic sector. In the face of resource constraint, the
tendency was to impose economy measures. Second, the wide
inter-state differences in the provision of rural water
supply services and infrastructure requires governmental
intervention. Thus, standard norms have been fixed for the
provision of rural and urban water supply service. The
current central rural water supply norms govern all central
programs and are mostly adhered by state sector programs. |
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