Need for public cooperation in water reform projects

  • 10/07/2000

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

The Union Rural Development Minister, Mr. Sunder Lal Patwa, today emphasised the need for sustainability of sources and of the systems in rural water supply sector.Mr. Patwa, who was inaugurating a workshop "Jal Manthan" on implementation of the Rural Water Supply Sector Reform Pilot Projects, said the Central Government has introduced sector reforms as a new concept through which proposed to assume the role of a facilitator and not that of a provider.