Puducherry Water Rich Model | 01 Jul 2019

It is a model for desilting the urban drains and rural canals with the cooperation of the general public with the Puducherry administration.

This model is fulfilling the need of water in rural areas for irrigation and preventing the overflowing of drains in urban areas.
- Ensuring regular flow prevents the diseases like malaria and dengue.
The practice of community involvement in desilting of canals and maintaining them goes back centuries in Puducherry, to the reign of the Pallavas.
- The Cholas and French also adapted it seriously.
All contributors under this model were awarded Swachta Hi Sewa Awards by administration.

Puducherry Water Rich Model

It ensures mapping and bring under watch all water bodies and drains by using technology.
To use MNREGA where machinery is not required and human contact is safe. It empowers people and provides livelihood.
Linking the local community for shramdaan and monitoring water bodies. It encourages participation as they are the real stakeholders.
Linking with the nearest donor support — any industry or institution.
It let the supporter and the service provider decide on the contractual cost. Government officials should only be facilitators, not in any way negotiate or deal with their money.
It allows farmers to take the silt away, as it is their soil which got washed away. It is rich in nutrients. The farmers are not to be charged for it.
Accountability lies with the collectors and municipal commissioners.