Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWS & S)

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.

Organization Structure

Scheme/activities/action plan

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 :23  PWS/MPWS Schemes : 2934

               Direct Pumping :1277 Hand Pumps : 10871

Habitation Status (as per 55 LPCD):

              Fully Covered Habitations :2949

              Partially Covered Habitations :1059

              Total Habitations :4008

Contacts

Email & Postal Address

             Email                         : serwsstirupati@gmail.com.

                                                  dre-rws-tpt@ap.gov.in

             Postal Address      : District RWS Engineering Office,

                                                 Panchayat Raj Office Compound,

                                                 Marri chena Reddy Colony

                                                 Tirupati– 517502

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) and IMIS (https://ejalsakakti.gov.in)