Cabinet approves continuation, restructuring of NRDWP

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New Delhi : The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Narendra Modi on November 10, 2017, accorded its approval to the continuation and restructuring of National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) to make it outcome-based, competitive and better monitored with increased focus on sustainability of schemes to ensure good quality service delivery to the rural population.

A sum of Rs 23,050 crore has been approved for the programme for the Fourteenth Finance Commission (FFC) period 2017-18 to 2019-20.  The programme will cover all the rural population across the country. The restructuring will make the programme flexible, result-oriented, competitive, and will enable the Ministry to to reach the goal of increasing coverage of sustainable Piped Water Supply, according to a PIB release.

With the restructuring of the NRDWP, there will be 2% earmarking of funds for Japanese Encephalitis (JE) /Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) affected areas. A new Sub-programme under NRDWP, National Water Quality Sub-Mission (NWQSM), which was started by the Ministry  of Drinking Water and Sanitation in February 2017, will address the urgent need for providing clean drinking water in about 28,000 Arsenic & Fluoride affected habitations already identified, according to the release.