Question

A village does not have proper drinking water. Who can solve its problem?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

From the early 1990s, ten IDA projects have helped India to move away from the traditional top down approach in providing rural water supply services and begun to empower rural communities to construct and operate their own water supply systems. Projects spanning ten states have built on lessons learnt from earlier ones to improve water supply for about 26 million rural people.

Challenge

India has long faced the challenge of providing safe drinking water to over 700 million people in more than 1.5 million villages. In 1972, the government began to improve rural water supply, and in the mid-1980s the issue was declared a national priority. As a result, by 2011, 95 percent of India’s rural population had access to some form of water supply infrastructure. In practice however many systems were no longer functional. The key issue was that systems were designed and constructed by state engineering agencies with little participation from local communities. People lacked a sense of ownership, and maintenance was neglected. Consumers also treated water as a right to be provided free-of-cost by the government, making systems financially unsustainable. Moreover, a growing population led to the mounting demand for water, with the result that water tables were falling and many water sources were shrinking or drying up altogether. At the same time, rural households had begun to demand higher levels of service. While in the 1990s, rural communities were satisfied with village wells and hand pumps, many now sought piped household connections.

Answer 2

the gram panchayat,block samiti and zili parishad can solve this