WWD 2001 Event
India - West Bengal
On World Water Day, 22 March the Association for Social and Health Advancement (ASHA) in Calcutta, India undertook a range of initiatives to get the issue of safe drinking water higher on the agenda:
- Supply of potable water through tankers to acute scarcity villages where diarrhoeal cases were already occurring.
- Disinfection of open drinking water wells through pot - chlorination method initiative.
- Repair of tube wells and maintenance training of community care-takers planned.
- Task force formed for control of communicable diseases.
These form part of an ongoing process of forming a Health Sector Partnership between the local government administration, government health department, government social welfare department (ICDS), local self-government bodies (Panchayats) the autonomous Mines Board of Health, the corporate - Integrated Coal Mining Ltd. (ICML) and our NGO - Association for Social and Health Advancement (ASHA
Contact
Dr. Rajat Das
Association for Social and Health Advancement (ASHA)
Calcutta, India
E- mail: ashacal@cal3.vsnl.net.in