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Uttar Pradesh authorities connected Friday (May 29, 2026) said successful an effort to efficaciously forestall water-borne diseases successful agrarian areas and to support a robust strategy for prime assurance and monitoring, it has prioritised h2o prime investigating done community-driven approach.
Under the initiative, which pushes for community-level participation, women person been trained to trial h2o prime utilizing Field Testing Kits (FTKs) for aboriginal & effectual detection of h2o contamination and fortify section assemblage ownership of agrarian h2o prime monitoring.
“Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, a robust strategy for prime assurance and monitoring has been implemented to guarantee harmless drinking h2o successful agrarian areas,” Anurag Srivastava, Additional Chief Secretary of the Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department, told The Hindu, successful Lucknow.
“To beforehand community-level participation, women person been trained to trial h2o prime utilizing Field Testing Kits (FTKs) for aboriginal & effectual detection of h2o contamination and fortify section ownership of agrarian h2o prime monitoring. Under this, the Field Testing Kit (FTK) run nether the Jal Jeevan Mission has evolved into a important level for women’s empowerment and self-sufficiency. By linking specialised groups of women crossed implicit 97,000 villages successful the authorities to this initiative, the authorities is not lone guaranteeing a cleanable and prime proviso of drinking h2o successful agrarian areas but is besides enhancing the method skills of women,” Mr. Srivastava said.
Mr. Srivastava, a 1992-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, added that the honorarium earned for investigating h2o purity successful villages has besides created caller opportunities for further income and self-employment for agrarian women.
“As portion of this mission, groups of 5 women each person been equipped with Field Testing Kits successful astir each Gram Panchayats and gross villages passim the state. Currently, trained women are actively engaged successful h2o prime testing. These women routinely trial h2o samples from drinking h2o sources and household taps successful their respective regions. The ongoing quality of this prime investigating inaugural is evident from the information that astir 63,700 h2o prime samples person been tested truthful acold successful the existent fiscal year. At the colony level, these women are detecting harmful chemicals and bacteria successful pipelines, conduit wells, and different drinking h2o sources utilizing FTKs,” told Mr. Srivastava to The Hindu.
Raj Shekhar, Managing Director of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (Rural) said these trained women, portion of the department’s community-driven inaugural promptly notifies the section to forestall assorted waterborne diseases caused by contaminated h2o without delay.
“In cases of suspected oregon contaminated h2o sources, these women promptly notify the section to forestall assorted waterborne diseases caused by contaminated h2o without delay. Previously, individuals had to endure agelong waits for h2o testing; however, with the instauration of Field Testing Kits and a assemblage thrust campaign, contiguous enactment tin present beryllium taken arsenic soon arsenic contaminated h2o sources are identified. Earlier, radical had to hold for a agelong clip for h2o testing, but now, done Field Testing Kits, it has go imaginable to instrumentality contiguous enactment arsenic soon arsenic contaminated h2o sources are identified. This programme is not lone ensuring the purity of water, but is besides becoming a means of economical empowerment for agrarian women,” told Mr. Shekhar, to The Hindu.
Mr. Shekhar, a 2004 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, added that the women associated with Field Testing enactment are being paid honorarium according to the prescribed rates for the investigating enactment carried retired by them.
“They are being paid ₹20 per test, with a maximum outgo of ₹400 for up to 20 tests. This statement has go an fantabulous mean for women surviving successful agrarian areas to gain further income and link with self-employment. We supply method grooming to women nether the ‘Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Programme’ of the Jal Jeevan Mission similar due cognition of these Field Testing Kit (FTK), harmless postulation of h2o samples from assorted drinking h2o sources, elaborate investigating of parameters contiguous successful water, signaling the reporting prepared aft investigating successful the online exertion and obtaining different indispensable accusation related to harmless drinking h2o standards and cleanliness,” added Mr. Shekhar.
