Department of Drinking Water Supply, is implementing programmes involving many cross-cutting issues which are very diverse and complex in the context of involvement of sectors such as Water Supply and Sanitation, Heath and Family Welfare, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development, Public Health Engineering, Women & Child Development, Education, Tribal Welfare, Social Justice, etc. All these make inter-sectoral coordination very important and is essential at all the levels-from center, state, district, block and village to school level-so as to improve the implementation of Department's programmes. In this context, the Department of Drinking Water Supply has taken several initiatives to forge a strong coordination with the concerned departments.

Coordination with Ministry of Water Resources Minutes of meeting held on 19 September, 2007

Coordination with Department of Elementary Education & Literacy, MoHRD-GOI Letter to State Secy on norms for school toilets Letter to DEEL for updating DISE data on SSHE Letter to DEEL on provision drinking water and toilets in pvt. schools Letter to DEEL for safety of girls in school toilets Letter to State Secy for convergence with SSA on achieving SSHE targets Joint letter DEEL and DDWS on hand washing

Coordination with Department of Health, MoHFW-GOI Letter to All State Secy(In Charge of Sanitation) on Menstrual Hygiene Letter to MOHFW on research study on omapct of sanitation on health Letter to NRHM on incentive to Asha Workers Letter to State Secy reg convergence of TSC,ARWSP,NRHM,SSA Letter to NRHM for inclusion of health parameter in NGP guidelines Letter to NIC,DIT regarding integration of data bases for convergence Joint letter MOHFW,DDWS to State Secy on toilets for Asha Workers Presentation-Inter Sectoral Convergence of TSC with NHRM Joint letter for convergence of TSC with NRHM Minutes on convergence of TSC and NRHM on polio eradication Convergence of initiatives of DDWS and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Coordination with Department of Women and Child Development, MoHRD-GOI Letter to All State Secy(In Charge of Sanitation) on Menstrual Hygiene Joint Letter Secy(DDWS) and Secy (MW&CD) regarding convergence of programmes of TSC and Min. of W&CD Letter to WNCD on convergence of TSC with CPAP Convergence of TSC with Min W&CD Comments of DDWS on NPAC 2005 for MWCD

Coordination with Ministry of Tribal Affairs Minutes of the meeting held on 24th June, 2004, Secretary level with Ministry of Tribal Affairs Letter by Sec., MoTA, to Sec. in charge of Tribal Welfare

Coordination with Other Ministries Letter to State Secy on manual scavenging for convergence with MUD & MSJEP Letter to religious leaders for awareness on sanitation.pdf

Providing Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Education in Schools and Anganwadis are one of the important concerns of Govt. of India. In this perspective, School and Anganwadi Sanitation Programmes have been initiated and DDWS has taken several initiatives to forge a strong coordination and initiated Secretary and Joint Secretary level meetings with the concerned departments to ensure priority to this programme and its overall implementation. To further strengthen the process of inter-sectoral coordination and effective implementation of School and Anganwadi Sanitation Programme, at Govt of India level, a Central Coordination Panel has been constituted under the Chairmanship of Secretary, DDWS. The other members of the panel are: Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor-DDWS, Joint Secretary-DEE&L, Joint Secretary- Health & FW, Joint Secretary-TW, Joint Secretary-DWCD, and Joint Secretary-Social Justice & Empowerment. Joint Secretary, DWS, has been designated as Member Secretary of the panel.

Minutes of the first meeting of the Central Coordination Panel Meeting on School and Anganwadi programme, held on 27th December 2004 in the officer chamber of Secretary, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation.