The Status of Water Supply in Uttar Pradesh By D. P. Singhal* B.Sc. Civil & Municipal Engg., M.E. (PH) Water is most important single element necessary for the advancement of society. The status of Nation's health and well being is determined to a great extent by the status of water supply in the human settlements. It is in this context that the imperative need for the development of Drinking Water Supply assumes crucial significance for the development of the nation. According to 1981 census, the state of Uttar Pradesh has a total population of about 110 million of which about 20 million live in 659 urban areas and about 90 million in 1,12,561 villages out of which 35,506 are problem villages. Status Before Ist Five Year Plan Prior to the launching of First Five Year Plan, pipe water supply had been in existence in only 27 urban areas while no pipe water supply existed in any rural area. Progress Made During V Five Year During the First Five Year Plan from 1951-55, 46 urban areas were covered by pipe water supply with an allocation of 6.66 crores made under water supply and sanitation sector. The rural areas still remained untouched. During the 2nd Five Year Plan from 1956-61, one urban area and 37 villages were covered by pipe water supply with an allocation of Rs. 5.04 crores. During the 3rd Five Year Plan from 1961-66, 58 urban areas and 127 villages were covered by pipe water supply with an allocation of Rs. 11.62 crores. After the Third Five Year Plan, there were three annual plans from 1966-69 during which 12 urban areas and 1273 villages were covered by pipe water supply with an allocation of Rs. 10.59 crores. The Author During IV Five Year Plan from 1969-74, water supply was provided to 36 urban areas and 2387 villages through pipe water supply schemes with an allocation of Rs. 26.00 crores. The progress on water supply sector upto IV Five Year Plan was not substantial, hence it was considered desirable to explore the possibility of obtaining assistance from international agencies like the World Bank, UNICEF, financial institutions like L. I. C., Government of other countries too to accelerate the pace of development of this sector in the State. Negotiations in this regard were started with the World Bank in 1972 and the Bank came forward with an offer of a financial assistance of 40 million US $ on two conditions that the drinking water service should be run on modern commercial lines to make it self-supporting and that the recovery of the loan made available to the local bodies in the shape of completed works should be entrusted to a central organisation with statutory *Chief Engineer, Project Planning & Research Development, U. P. Jal Nigam, Lucknow. 100% At Garwares-QUALITY is our foremost Garwares offer a complete range of rigid PVC powers. In June 1975, the State Government created an automonous Corporation with the Name "Uttar pradesh Jal Nigam" by an Act of the State Legislature and transformed the Local Self Government Engineering Department into this Corporation. The U. P. Jal Nigam is thus now responsible for preparing & execution of water supply and other sanitation projects throughout the State of Uttar Pradesh & all schemes are financed through this body. During the V Five Year Plan from 1974-79, 195 urban areas and 2846 vill ges were coverd by piped water supply with an allocation of Rs. 63.20 crores. Status after V Five Year Plan and Status at the End of VI Five Year Plan In the VI Five Year Plan, an allocation of Rs. 347.285 crores exists for water supply. Upto March 1984, 88 towns and 21,310 villages, out of which 18955 are scarcity villages have already been covered by water supply. In 14912 villages the facility has been provided by constructing deep tube wells worked with India Mark-11 hand pumps. In the final year of VI Five Year Plan i. e. year 84-85, 12 towns and 12,754 villages (8800 problem villages) are proposed to be provided with drinking water supply-6026 villages with India-Mark-Il hand pumps and rest with piped water supply. By the end of Sixth Plan, 509 urban areas and 40456 villages out of which 34756 are problem villages are anticipated to be covered with water supply. Category-wise Status of Water The category wise status of water supply of urban areas on 1.4.84 is given below : Total population of town in the category in lacs The PL-801 is the versatile instrument to locate The differential coil patented by No. 7478145 The T-shaped antenna locates the buried live WATER LEAK DETECTOR model: WL-200 The WL-200 has been designed to listen to the leak noises within either of high or low fre. quency band. Therefore, this method will minimize the puzzle for the operators to localize the water leaks on a spot. 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The objective of Corporate Project Planning could be to determine the number of projects that could be taken up for execution in a particular planning period. The planning period would be short term or long term. For any given period of time there could be continuing projects, at different stages of completion. In addition, there would be number of projects avaiting start due to non-availability of financial sanction; to be taken up for execution, during the planning period. Proper planning at the level of top management requires, classification of projects into large, medium and small, based on their cost and the relevant data regarding various stages of completion. This, along with the information of new projects, proposed to be undertaken for next planning period is necessary to attribute to the priorities for execution. For deciding upon a suitable mix between now and continuing projects, following important factors need be considered. 3. E. & Manager (Monitoring). |