Author: Ramana Barathy Gunasingam
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-87-11
Year: 1987
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1997
Examination Committee: Reidar Dale (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, C. Visvanathan (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Plantation workers were brought from South India in the 1820s and were kept as 24 hours’ captured labor on the plantations. Due to severe social welfare problems among the work force, several social welfare facilities (SWFs) have been implemented over the latest few decades. Water supply and sanitation are considered to be an effective entry point for the socio economic development of the work force, but only the physical achievements of such facilities have been evaluated. Assessing the effectiveness and relevance of the facilities and the operation and maintenance of the water supply facility is very important, because they are directly related to the socio economic development of the plantation population. This study deals with the realization of the intended effects and impacts of the water supply and sanitation facilities, workers’ preference for various SWFs, workers’ perceptions of the imp01iance of water supply and sanitation facilities and their expectations from such facilities, the adequacy of existing institutional arrangements for the sustained operation and maintenance of the water supply facility, and the capacity of the community to participate in the operation and maintenance of the provided water supply facility. Physical specifications of the water supply facility were not fully adhered to, in implementation. There was an increase in the quantity of water used for drinking, cooking and sanitation after the supply, but this increase was not only due to the usage of supplied water. There was only a slight change in the purposes of water use. There was not much difference in the quality of the water used. Physical specifications of the sanitation facility were adhered to, in implementation. Though the provided latrines were in use, regular usage was very much dependent on the regularity of water supply. There were reductions in the morbidity and infant and child mortality caused by water and sanitation related diseases, but no connection with the water supply and sanitation
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Norway
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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