The Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India has approved Gramalaya as one of the National Key Resource Centres (KRC) under the Jal Jeevan Mission by the Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation for providing training and capacity-building support to Government Officials and PRIs working in the water supply. Earlier we were approved as KRC from 2014-2019 for Water and Sanitation.
Under Jal Jeevan Mission we have as a Key Resource Center we will be giving training for Level II and Level III. For Level 2, Middle management level we will be providing training to officers from DWSM officials, Superintending Engineers, Executive Engineers, Water Utility Managers, and Water Testing laboratory personnel from Public Health and Engineering Departments (PHEDs)/ Rural Water Supply (RWS) departments/ Public Works Departments (PWDs), etc. of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamilnadu states and Union Territory of Puducherry. This year the training for Level 2 officials will be online mode for two days with three hours sessions on each day.
We will be giving training on two topics as detailed below:
- Operation and Maintenance of Distribution System for Effective Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) Adopting Water Audit, Budgeting with ToT Technique.
- Grey Water Treatment and Reuse at the Community Level.
This financial year we will be giving five training in batches of 50 participants in each batch on both topics.
For Level – 3 at the Community level we will be providing training to Elected Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) Members, Gram Panchayat (GP) Officials, VWSC Members, Members of Implementation Support Agencies (ISAs), etc. of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamilnadu states and Union Territories of Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.