Jalswarajya Analysis

Title: Critical Analysis of Jalswarajya scheme on basis with Time and Cost Ratio for Satara District

1. Introduction
1.1General
1.2 Background
1.2.1 Innovative Initiatives of Government of Maharashtra
2.Literature Review
3.Jalswarajya
3.1 Concept of Jalswarjya schemes and its existing nature
3.2 Visualisation of Process followed in planning and execution
3.4- Phases of jalswarajya
3.4.1 Pilot Learning
4. Accountability of Jalswarjya
4.1 What is Accountability
4.2 How is Accountability Promoted – Introducing Social Accountability Mechanisms
4.3 Effect of Jalswarajya on Community:
4.3.1- Drinking water
4.3.2- Health and Sanitation
4.3.3- Women Empowerment
5. Critical analysis of jalswarajya
5.1 Concept of time
3) The Jalswarajya Project means of the people for the people and by the people.
1.2 BACKGROUND The State of Maharashtra faces a rigorous trouble with regard to ensuring supply of secure and sufficient drinking water and sanitation services to its rural population of 57 million. Traditionally, the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) Sector has seen government-dominated, supply driven programs that have proven to be unsustainable institutionally, financially and environmentally. Not surprisingly, the level of failure of this approach is widespread and well documented. Some of the key problems of the RWSS sector in Maharashtra are:
(a) Ineffective and unsustainable public expenditures: Past government RWSS programs focused on infrastructure developement and neglected sources and financial sustainability aspects. This leads to unsustainable and weakly managed resources.
(b) Lack of capacity in local governments and communities to efficiently plan, implement and operate new investments: The main challenges of decentralization are the local institutions’ (primarily GPs) lack of capacity to plan, construct and manage RWSS schemes, and the use of non performance-based criteria for fund allocation,
Until the 1970s, rural development was synonymous with agricultural development and focused on increasing agricultural production.This focus seems to have been driven primarily by the interests of industrialization. The stated objective of most countries is to promote smallholder agriculture. Over the time, this smallholder agricultural-centric concept of rural development underwent changes by the early 1980s. According to Harris, the World Bank defined it as “A strategy designed to improve the economics and social life of a specific group of people the rural poor.” The four major factors appear to have influenced the change. They are the increased concerns about the persistent and depending of rural poverty. The changing views on the meaning of the concept of the more diversified rural economy in which rural nonfarm enterprises play an important role and increased