( r M Rajamani the Joint Secretary of th...)Solutions Possible for Providing Water and Sanitation in Poor Urban Settlements, Says WaterAid,Health

r M Rajamani, the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Urban Development, and Mission Director, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, said that the process of development had to include the urban poor along with the upper and the middle class, for the overall conditions in a city to improve. He also emphasized the role of community participation in making sanitation projects successful.

Mr Depinder S Kapur, Country Representative, WAI, offered solutions to tackle the iniquitous urban growth. These included: transparency in all plans and reforms, Individual connections for slum dwellers, irrespective of tenure; underground/covered drainage within slums; community managed toilets/ bathing and washing utilities; door to door collection of garbage in collaboration with SHGs; building people’s agency through civil society; the inclusion of slums in all bilateral projects/loans; and the mapping of slums on a priority basis.

The six NGO’s felicitated were Sambhav (Gwalior), Arambh (Bhopal), Gramalaya (Trichy), Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra (Ranchi), Ruchika Social Service Organisation (Bhubaneswar) and Social Awareness Institute (Cuttack). A film on community management of toilets (CMT) and bathing complex in Trichy, Tamil Nadu was also shown highlighting the pro-poor Initiatives in urban water and sanitation. The CMTs are being run successfully as business enterprises by women self-help groups; and running these toilets has increased their confidence and given them aspirations both in terms of making a living, and thinking about their children's education.

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