IRRIGATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
HAND PUMPS PROGRAMME
Although Hand Pumps usually do not provide coverage
of a habitation, (due to limitation of rigs operating along road-sides
only) they are supplementing the existing piped water supply and have
been installed in drought prone areas, areas of acute water scarcity
and other problematic areas and the areas where tankers have been deployed
in recent years at huge financial cost.
Hand Pump programme has been great success in mitigating the peoples
misery due to shortage of drinking water in different pockets of drought
prone and acute water scarcity areas.
The programme was started during 1991-92 and a total of 39074 hand pumps
have been installed in the Pradesh upto March-2019. Year wise details
of Hand Pumps installed in the drought prone area in the Himachal Pradesh.
| Year | Nos. of Hand Pumps installed |
| 1991-92 | 323 |
| 1992-93 | 789 |
| 1993-94 | 1496 |
| 1994-95 | 1000 |
| 1995-96 | 1001 |
| 1996-97 | 809 |
| 1997-98 | 1027 |
| 1998-99 | 792 |
| 1999-2000 | 1019 |
| 2000-2001 | 1148 |
| 2001-02 | 1077 |
| 2002-03 | 1570 |
| 2003-04 | 1057 |
| 2004-05 | 639 |
| 2005-06 | 269 |
| 2006-07 | 595 |
| 2007-08 | 852 |
| 2008-09 | 2188 |
| 2009-10 | 3007 |
| 2010-11 | 2713 |
| 2011-12 | 2761 |
| 2012-13 | 2762 |
| 2013-14 | 2084 |
| 2014-15 | 1241 |
| 2015-16 | 1252 |
| 2016-17 | 2197 |
| 2017-18 | 1597 |
| 2018-19 | 1809 |
| Total: | 39085 (up to 3/2019) |