Status: Project Completion

Basti Water Project

The project is well established with a significant amount of community ownership and support. JUSCO has provided drinking water to thousands of households. The water is of higher standard set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is continually improved by the workers of JUSCO. As a result, there has been a sigificant improvement in public health issues (including the rapid decline of waterborne diseases).

Project Status

Implementation

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Project Summary

To provide access to water facilities for the 50,000 households in the area of Jamshedpur known as 86 Bastees. Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company Limited (JUSCO), a Tata Enterprise, has lead the project implementation and have developed strong working relationships with the community committees who represent the residents of Jamshedpur.

Themes

, Urban Infrastructure
Global Compact Principle

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Issues Project is Seeking to Address

The threat to healthy living conditions posed by the lack of availability of running water to all households in 86 Bastees
Planned Actions

The future actions are focussed on the overarching governance question that confronts JUSCO. As a result of the good quality of municipal services available to residents of Jamshedpur, urban growth management is at the forefront of future decisions. JUSCO is strategizing how it may continue to provide it’s services to a continual growing population, as well as servicing the surrounding areas outside the controlled area.
Desired Outcomes
  1. To provide improved water access to urban and rural populations
  2. To increase corporate responsibility initiatives relating to human rights, labour and the environment
Related Documents
Timeline

2007 Implementation
2008 Implementation
2009 Implementation / Expected evaluation

Project News and Updates

International Secretarait visits The City of Jamshedpur

12 August 2009


In July, 2009, Ms Caroline Bayliss and Ms Stephanie McCarthy visited the member city, Jamshedpur, India.
After three years of being in close communication with the Local Secretariat, it was a wonderful opportunity to meet the team at Jamshedpur Utilities Services Company Limited (JUSCO), an enterprise of Tata Enterprise. JUSCO has successfully implemented reticulated water to 1000’s of residents in more than 60 Bagan areas. The high quality standard of water is higher than World Health Organization standards. JUSCO bases their work ethic largely on Kaizen, a Japanese philosophy based on continuous improvement. This philosophy is an evident characteristic when visiting the river-to-river water treatment plant and observing the well developed processes in place that are making the most and placing a high value on water as a valuable resource. Their work, as JUSCO best describes, as a legacy of a century of Trust, based on the Tata values of integrity, excellence, trusteeship, respect for individual, credibility and agility.

JUSCO initiatives within the Basti Water project include rain water harvesting projects, community owned infrastructure projects and community education initiatives. These activities have helped communities enormously by providing a continual water supply, improving the cropping / agricultural base from 3 months to 6-9 months and dramatically decreasing the number of waterborne diseases and related health issues.

JUSCO Water Conservation and Rainwater Harvesting Practices

18 February 2008

The Jamshedpur Utilities Services Company Limited in India has released the following documents: