3681 water supply schemes, managed by 3891 Beneficiary Groups have been completed as on end June ’08 through Jalanidhi project. All these schemes are being operated and maintained by the beneficiary communities. Another 31 schemes are at different stages of implementation and works on these schemes are going / progressing on a war footing basis. Out of the 16 river based large water supply schemes including Tsunami rehabilitation project taken up so far, 7 schemes have already been  commissioned and 9 schemes are in the implementation phase .

Sanitation In order to ensure the quality of drinking water and to avert the threat of water pollution, the project is investing a lot of resources on sanitation. The major focus area is the prevention of biological contamination by construction of sanitary latrines and conversion of unsanitary latrines to sanitary latrines. 67964 new sanitary latrines have been constructed so far against the total PAD target of 40,000 and conversion of 24194 unsanitary latrines to sanitary latrines have been done against the total PAD target of 8000. Thus the project has attained a very high level of achievement in this component. A total of 89319 environment sanitation structures like compost pit, soak pit and vermi composting units have been already constructed against the total PAD target of 26667. The project also assigns equal weight age to building up the community’s awareness on sanitation and hygiene and its relation to water. 26 GPs have received the Nirmal Gram Puraskar for achieving 100% household latrine coverage.

Ground Water Recharge (GWR) This project is designed keeping the change in Govt. perspective on a holistic approach to water resource management. Thus source recharge measures are inbuilt into the project design. Comprehensive GWR activities are being implemented in some panchayaths with the objective to implement GWR activities in the project Panchayaths identified as “difficult areas” which show a drop in ground water levels and face acute drought during peak summer. BG centric activities have been completed in 1013 BGs and GP centric activities in 33 GPs.

Transfer of single- Panchayath KWA schemes / GP schemes :

In keeping with the Govt. Order of 1998, transferring all single panchayath KWA schemes to the GPs, Jalanidhi has facilitated the transfer of 174 KWA schemes to the panchayath and has been successful in transferring 95 of these, after necessary rehabilitation, to the user communities themselves. 251 Grama panchayath schemes were rehabilitated so far and handed over to Beneficiaries for operation and maintenance.