NEW DELHI: With daily one lakh households in India being provided with tap connections for drinking water since the beginning of first unlock period on June 1, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday lay the foundation stone for Manipur Water Supply Project through video conferencing to give further push to a central scheme.
The Manipur project is a key component of the states ongoing efforts to provide safe drinking water to every rural household by 2024, syncing it with the central scheme under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
Seven states – Bihar, Telangana, Maharashtra, Haryana, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram – have already achieved more than 10% of their target of household tap connections which they had fixed for 2020-21.
The JJM was launched in August last year to provide safe drinking water in adequate quantities to every rural household in India by 2024. At present, over 14.33 crore out of nearly 19 crore rural households in the country dont have fresh water tap connections.
The Manipur Water Supply project, costing over Rs 3,054 crore, was designed to provide fresh water tap connections to remaining households in Greater Imphal Planning area, 25 towns and 1,731 rural habitations covering 2,80,756 households in 16 districts of the state.
The JJM implementation record shows that all the states and UTs together had provided 45 lakh rural households with tap connections from June 1 to July 15 – it means the first 45 days of unlock period saw installation of daily one lakh connections amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
Asked about monitoring mechanism, an official said, “Every asset created is being geo-tagged and connections are being linked with Aadhaar of the head of the household to ensure transparency. A dashboard, indicating progress of the Mission up to district level, has been created for constant monitoring.”
He said, “Since monitoring of water quality is an important aspect of the MissiRead More – Source
NEW DELHI: With daily one lakh households in India being provided with tap connections for drinking water since the beginning of first unlock period on June 1, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday lay the foundation stone for Manipur Water Supply Project through video conferencing to give further push to a central scheme.
The Manipur project is a key component of the states ongoing efforts to provide safe drinking water to every rural household by 2024, syncing it with the central scheme under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
Seven states – Bihar, Telangana, Maharashtra, Haryana, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram – have already achieved more than 10% of their target of household tap connections which they had fixed for 2020-21.
The JJM was launched in August last year to provide safe drinking water in adequate quantities to every rural household in India by 2024. At present, over 14.33 crore out of nearly 19 crore rural households in the country dont have fresh water tap connections.
The Manipur Water Supply project, costing over Rs 3,054 crore, was designed to provide fresh water tap connections to remaining households in Greater Imphal Planning area, 25 towns and 1,731 rural habitations covering 2,80,756 households in 16 districts of the state.
The JJM implementation record shows that all the states and UTs together had provided 45 lakh rural households with tap connections from June 1 to July 15 – it means the first 45 days of unlock period saw installation of daily one lakh connections amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
Asked about monitoring mechanism, an official said, “Every asset created is being geo-tagged and connections are being linked with Aadhaar of the head of the household to ensure transparency. A dashboard, indicating progress of the Mission up to district level, has been created for constant monitoring.”
He said, “Since monitoring of water quality is an important aspect of the MissiRead More – Source
