{"id":20990,"date":"2024-02-28T02:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20990"},"modified":"2025-04-06T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T03:31:51","slug":"pey-jal-survekshan-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pey-jal-survekshan-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pey Jal Survekshan Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Pey Jal Survekshan Awards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A distinguished array of 130 awards is set to be bestowed, reflecting the remarkable\u00a0accomplishments of cities and states.<\/li>\n<li>The award consists of various categories;\n<ul>\n<li>Pey Jal Gold, Silver, and Bronze City Awards, where Gold signifies top performers in their respective population categories (1 to 10 Lakh, 10 to 40 Lakh, and More than 40 Lakh),<\/li>\n<li>Silver denotes the 2nd position, and Bronze the 3rd.<\/li>\n<li>The awards extend to commendations for Best Water Body, Sustainability Champion, Reuse Champion, Water Quality, City Saturation, and\u00a0AMRUT 2.0 Rotating Trophy of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Parameters: It encompassed diverse parameters, including access, coverage, water quality at treatment plants and households, and sustainability regarding the health of water bodies, availability of SCADA\/ flowmeters, and reuse of treated used water.<\/li>\n<li>Cities will be graded on a star rating scale,\u00a0ranging from 5 stars to No star, encapsulating their performance across these critical criteria.<\/li>\n<li>Pey Jal Survekshan ensured clean water through\u00a0independent NABL lab testing at source and citizen-end.<\/li>\n<li>Using a GIS-enabled web portal, geo-tagging, and infrastructure mapping, the survey collected accurate and transparent data.<\/li>\n<li>Significance: Its results are expected to drive ULB decision-making, enhance service delivery, and foster citizen engagement, instilling a sense of ownership and knowledge dissemination about water conservation and optimal use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the AMRUT Mitra initiative?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to actively involve\u00a0women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in the\u00a0urban water sector, designating women as key contributors and emphasizing their role in household water management.<\/li>\n<li>The Mitras will be engaged in executing AMRUT 2.0 projects, focusing on activities such as billing, collection, leak detection, plumbing works, water quality sampling, and maintenance of infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>The overarching goal of AMRUT Mitra is to instill a sense of ownership among women, promoting inclusivity and diversity in traditionally male-dominated sectors while ensuring access to safe drinking water for households and\u00a0addressing gender inequality.<\/li>\n<li>The anticipated outcomes include upliftment of the socio-economic status of women SHGs, aligning closely with the objectives of AMRUT 2.0, increased awareness, positive community impact, and a model for future initiatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Self Help Groups (SHGs)?<\/h3>\n<p>These are small groups of poor people. The members of an SHG face similar problems. They help each other to solve their problems. SHGs promote small savings among their members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2009284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>First Pey Jal Survekshan Awards to be conferred by President on 5th March<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pey Jal Survekshan Awards  are set to be bestowed, reflecting the remarkable accomplishments of cities and states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}