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TWAD board refusal to train NGOs flayed

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDALORE JUNE 4 . A non-governmental organisation (NGO) has come down heavily against what it called the blunt refusal by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) board's blunt refusal to train the NGOs for the exeuction of the participatory-based ``Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission'' project, being exclusively implemented in the District with a massive outlay of Rs. 41 crores.

E. Selvaganapathy, secretary, WASH, a service organisation based in Kurunjipadi, said the guidelines of this Centrally-sponsored scheme stipulated that the users should be trained, through the NGOs for its effective execution.

The guidelines, he said, provided for imparting training to the NGOs, who in turn would train the users in all the village panchayats.

Mr. Selvaganapathy said the plea by a number of service organisations to the Board to conduct training programmes for them, had fallen into deaf ears.

The Collector, S. Thangaswami, who is also the ex-officio of the Cuddalore District Society, in-charge of the scheme, said it was optional for the users (the field-level villagers) to execute the drinking water projects either through the Board or through the village committees.

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