CHANDIGARH, Aug. 23 -- Punjab has completed its assessment against the Centre's newly introduced State Water Reforms Framework (SWRF) and is now awaiting budgetary inputs from a few departments before submitting its final report to the Union ministry of jal shakti by August 31.

The SWRF - launched by the Union ministry of jal shakti in May this year - addresses groundwater depletion, data gaps and service delivery by grading states and Union territories on 75 binary indicators.

It covers five broad areas - policy and regulation, project monitoring, digitalisation and research and development, infrastructure, and community engagement.

State nodal officer-cum-chief engineer, water resources department, Punjab, Sukhjit Singh Bhullar, said...