RURAL WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION

a)PROFILE :

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department is the nodal agency in the State for providing drinking water and Sanitation facilities in rural areas. Drinking water facilities are being provided through various types of schemes such as hand pumps, PWS Schemes and CPWS Schemes.

Objectives:

To provide every rural person with adequate safe water for drinking, cooking and other basic
needs on sustainable basis

Jal Jeevan Mission (Earlier NRDWP):

The Hon’ble Prime Minister announced the “Jal Jeevan Mission” (JJM) programme on 15th August 2019. The Jal Jeevan Mission aim is to Provide a Functional House Hold Tap Connections (FHTC) to every rural house hold in the country by the end of 2024. Jal Jeevan Mission is a time bound mission mode programme and for its successful implementation by funding 50% central share and 50% state share, community contribution of 10% of capital expenditure by way of cash or kind, 5% in case of SC, ST habitations. (more than 50% SC’s and ST’s population).

Assets Status:

CPWS Schemes : 18 PWS/MPWS Schemes : 1791

Direct Pumping : 1033 Hand Pumps : 14674

Habitation Status (as per 55 LPCD):

Fully Covered Habitations : 1089

Partially Covered Habitations : 1025

Total Habitations : 2114

b)Organization Chart:

Management Information System (MIS):

RWS&S Department is having its own application “watersoft” and implementing the following modules through NIC: URL (https://rwss.ap.nic.in)

c) Contacts of Branch Office Employees :

d) Email & Postal Address :

se_rws_nlr[at]ap[dot]gov[dot]in & serwsnlr[at]gmail[dot]com

Postal Address :

Superintending Engineer,

RWS&S Department,

New ZP office Compound,

Podalakur Road,Dargamitta

Nellore – 524003