Team resource personnel along with Wokha Village Council, Watsan Community, church leaders, and community.
Wokha, December 10 (MExN): Team Metamorphosis (TM), a Wokha-based NGO, has so far toured than 40 villages in and around Wokha district carrying out awareness programme and sensitising the community on various aspects on the importance of water and sanitation through JJM.
The NGO is an empanelled Implementing Support Agency (ISA) for Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) of Wokha District, a Government of India (GoI) initiative under the Ministry of Jal Shakti aimed to ensuring access of piped water for every household in India by 2024.
In Wokha district alone, the scheme had to cover 152 villages and the TM has visited villages where the project is completed as well as presently ongoing.
In the first phase, 10 villages were selected where most of them are on the verse of completion. In the 2nd and 3rd phase, 37 and 42 Villages were selected respectively, the TM informed in a press release.
The Team members, acting as the ISA for the said project, provided technical support and training to support achievement of the objectives, it said.
The members helped in designing social behavioral change communication to undertake awareness generation activities in project villages such as rain water harvesting, artificial recharge, water quality, water-borne disease, water handling, safe drinking water source augmentation/ sustainability aspects, etc, it added.
The team also coordinated with the government and District level departments to ensure, effective monitoring, process-based implementation with community participations, it added.
It also created awareness among VWSC and the whole community members especially women about water safety and security, water conservation, water Quality monitoring and surveillance, operation and maintenance and various aspects as stated above to promote adoption of FHTC by every household in the Villages as per the guidelines, it added.
The Team also encouraged the village community to participate in JJM by donating 5% of its total estimated cost of the project by means of labour and other related mean, the release said.
Further the Team informed that they shall be visiting Lotha Lower Range like Ralan and Bhandari by next year January 2022.
