A demand driven and community participatory based rural drinking water and environmental sanitation project jointly sponsored by World Bank, Government and the community, 84%, 06% and 10% share of each respectively was an innovative one and HETONA started providing intermediary services to this project from 1998 onwards. The project envisaged three stages; planning, implementation and operation and maintenance. Later the project was developed on sector wise approach rather than a project specific basis with the credit from international development association (IDA) towards the cost of Uttarakhand rural water supply and sanitation project. Known as SWAp it essentially represents an approach wherein most significant public funding for the sector supports a single sector policy and expenditure programme under government leadership adopting common approaches across the sector, utilizing existing institutional systems and indigenous resources and progressing towards relying on a government procedures to disburse and account for all public expenditures, however funded. To put it explicitly, SWAp means a state investment programme to achieve the vision goals of rural water supply and sanitation.
HETONA entered into agreement with three district implementing agencies namely; DPMU and Jal Sansthan Uttarkashi and Jalsansthan New Tehri. HETONA provided intermediary services for planning and implementation phases to 24 GPs with DPMU, 05 GPs with UJS-Uttarkashi and 09 GPs with UJS New Tehri. The programme was 100% success in water schemes construction in all GPs with 100% sanitation coverage and World banks mission visited our GP Tuliyara( Gailari) of Chinyalisaur block of Uttarkashi and Ghena in Saklana area of Jaunpur block of Tehri GarhwalIn both visits the Mission praised works/facilitation of HETONA.