THE experts from all over the country raked their brains on various issues pertaining to the drinking water problem in the coastal areas of the country in a two day seminar on drinking water in the coastal states in India, organised by Centre for Development Alternatives at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) at Bhat, Gandhinagar on Thursday and Friday.
The deliberations revolved around various problems, faced by the community living along the coastlines due to drinking water, and the impact of non-potable water supply on health status in coastal india apart from charting out the possible ways of ensuring drinking water security along these regions.
Reviewing the efforts by NGOs in the drinking water sector in Coastal Gujarat, Apurva Ojha from Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, India (AKRSP) observed that the interventions made by the NGOs have led to significant developments at the policy levels. “Presentations by the Coastal Salinity Prevention Cell and PRAVAH has led to WASMO and GWSSB constituting a separate committee of NGO and GO experts to evolve separate drinking water plans for coastal areas,” Ojha observed adding that in this on-going effort NGOs are entrusted with the responsibility of developing plans for addressing drinking water problems in the coastal blocks of Gujarat coast.
Observing that in most parts of the State access to water is such a critical issue that water quality does not get the importance as water quantity, Ojha said that coastal areas command uniqueness because of their problems pertaining to water quality than quantity.
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In pakistan and specially the northern areas of pakistan hunza, gilgit, and baltistan. the area was considered as the most backward and remoteareas of pakista.
after the intervention of akdn in the field of rural area development by akrsp and in education development by akes the area is developed to its best in the area this is the great contribution and intervention of akrsp that the area is having such villages that are having 90% 99% literacy rate and the economic conditions are far better to that which were hear before the akrsp’s intervention in this area..
so akdn is still working in different sectors which needs to be further developed and the word done by this non-govt non-profit organisation is outstanding and we wish it will further work in this area to develop the area to its peaks..
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