Capacity Building, Social / Community Mobilization and Behavioral Change Communication Activities and Implementation Plan

Water scarcity is a regular threat to the people of Purulia, more particularly in summer and the gap between demand and supply of water has been widening over the years. This negatively impacts the health, social and economic indices of the inhabitants. Hence, although culturally rich, it is still backward from the development point of view. In this context, the West Bengal Piped Water Supply Project Purulia through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) was designed to provide safe and adequate drinking water supply to people focusing on 9 blocks of Purulia District covering Manbazar -I, Barabazar, Hura, Puncha, Kashipur, Raghunathpur-I, Purulia-I, Purulia-II and Para- suffering from acute scarcity of potable water, by constructing piped water supply schemes, thereby improving health and quality of life in the district.

Hijli INSPIRATION jointly with Stesalit Systems partnered with the West Bengal Public Health Engineering Department in developing Capacity Building and Behaviour Change Communication strategy with a two fold aim – 

• Community sensitisation for generating demand for individual water connection
• Institutional capacity building for Operation and Maintenance of the scheme

The Project was piloted in Manbazar– I Block