Performance Assessment System of Sanitation Services in Urban Areas of Amritsar District

By : Ritu Raj Kaur, Gursharan Kaur, Rawal Singh Aulakh, Sakshi Sahini, Ravi Inder Singh, Prabhnoor Singh

Page No: 76-96

Abstract
The urban areas are considered as growth engines and attract lot of economic development resulting in expansion of urbanisable areas of cities and towns. The rapid urbanisation of these settlements has burdened the service delivery of different sectors such as water, wastewater, solid waste, housing, public transport, etc. The increased pressure on urban areas has resulted in a lack of infrastructure services below the standards wherever they are present. To keep a check on the same, service level benchmarks are established by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs erstwhile Ministry of Urban Development. The present research paper discusses sanitation benchmarking through performance assessment system for sanitation services in the towns and the cities of the Amritsar district. A comparative assessment has been made to view the situation in the larger city and small towns. It has been analysed that the larger city has a better financial position than small towns. Thereby the larger cities have comparatively better sanitation facilities.

Authors :
Ritu Raj Kaur, Gursharan Kaur, Sakshi Sahini and Ravi Inder Singh : Assistant Professor, Guru Ramdas School of Planning, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
Rawal Singh Aulakh : Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India
Prabhnoor Singh : Student, Guru Ramdas School of Planning, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/NL.2023.55.04.5