Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has been launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi on 15^th August, 2019, from the ramparts of the Red Fort. The mission, under implementation, in partnership with the States, aims to enable every household in villages to have Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) by year 2024. It is envisaged that with FHTC, each household will have potable water supply in adequate quantity (at least 55 lpcd) of prescribed quality (as per BIS 10500:2012) on regular and long-term basis. To implement the mission, institutional arrangements at various levels have been made and State PHED Departments are to play a critical role. They have to help Gram Panchayat (GP) and/ or its sub-committee to plan, implement, manage, operate and maintain its in-village water supply systems. A sense of ownership has to be instilled in the village community as they are at the centre of this mission. This will require the current programme implementation structure to transform from infrastructure development to ‘utility-based’ approach, with strategic shift in focus from water supply ‘infrastructure creation’ to ‘service delivery’.

To achieve the vision of JJM, it is required to re-orient both Public Health Engineering and other non-engineering stakeholders. The people managing the water supply services at all levels, i.e., village, GP, district and State, need to be provided with training and leadership programmes so as to enable them to discharge their role in managing the public utilities for assured quality services. The training programme for Level -3 has been customized to suit different levels covering various technical, managerial and leadership aspects. Through this capacity building training, effort has been made to offers a platform and huge potential to generate the future leadership in water sector through such capacity building and change management programmes.

The Level -3 training is planned and organized based on broad framework given in L3 training manual. The core focus is on creating a favorable, comfortable and friendly learning environment, conducive for self-reflection, realization and pro-active behaviour change for nurturing responsible and responsive governance amongst various stakeholders associated with provisioning water supply in villages of the district. The thematic areas covered include perception, knowledge and skill, community participation, women empowerment, leadership building among Panchayat representatives, planning, implementation and operation and maintenance of the water supply infrastructure in the village. The training programme broadly covered the ethos of Jal Jeevan Mission for good water governance which shall meet the demand for adequate quantity of drinking with required quality and also will lead to long-term sustainability of created system, processes and drinking water sources.

In the above background, National Jal Jeevan Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India has empanelled Center for Development Communication & Studies Jaipur as Key Resource Center for capacity development of community level stakeholders Level – 3 by NJJM (GoI) vide their letter No.W-11012/18/2020-JJM-III-DDWS dated 09 April, 2021 and allotted six States & UTs namely Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Goa and Daman, Diu, Dadara & Nagar Haveli vide letter No. W-11011/34/2021-JJM-V-DDWS – Part (1) dated 17 August, 2021 and email dated 19 August, 2021. In compliance with above letter CDECS has been assigned responsibility of different states. In together we have completed more than 156 trainings in 2023-24.