Rural population of the state will get water from tap at home with Jal Jeevan Mission
Sunday - October 3, 2021 10:31 pm ,
Category : BHOPAL
Schools and Anganwadis in priority with rural population: Chief Minister Chouhan
Bhopal 03 October 2021: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given the gift of Jal Jeevan Mission to the entire nation to ensure easy availability of drinking water to the rural population. Through the mission, it is being ensured to provide pure water from tap to every household through village-to-village tap water schemes. In Madhya Pradesh, work is being done at a fast pace in the mission. In the last 16 months, despite the Corona period, the pace of the work of the mission was maintained, as a result of which till now water has been supplied through tap in 3401 villages, 33 thousand 996 Anganwadi centres and 56 thousand 369 schools. In the rural population, 41 lakh 79 thousand 60 houses have been provided with tap water.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that it is our endeavour that in the next two years, water should start reaching from door to door in all the villages of the state. For this, water sources are also being explored in all the villages. Nal Jal scheme will be started by developing new water sources in the villages where there is no water source. This work goes on continuously. Chief Minister Chouhan said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Jal Mission on August 15, 2019, to relieve the rural population, especially women, from the drinking water problem. Today this mission is proving to be a boon for the women living in rural areas. Now women have started getting drinking water through taps at home.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the Central Government is also providing adequate allocation for this mission which is the priority of Prime Minister Modi. In the state from June 2020, through the mission, the process of providing water through tap connections to every household in the villages started. Today more than 41 lakh 56 thousand rural families are getting continuous water supply through tap connections.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that a change is being brought in the lives of the rural population by using existing drinking water sources and creating new ones where there are no drinking water sources in the Jal Jeevan Mission. The change brought about by the implementation of the mission can be seen in 3401 villages of the state, where water is being provided from taps. Soon the availability of drinking water from door to door by tap will be ensured through the mission in all the villages of the state.
Chief Minister Chouhan informed that tap connections are being provided for drinking water in the houses of rural population as well as in schools and Anganwadis in the mission. The goal is to ensure supply of quality and adequate water to every rural household, Anganwadi and school. So far, arrangements for drinking water from taps have been made in about 34 thousand Anganwadis and more than 56 thousand schools. The works of water supply from taps to the Anganwadis and schools, including the remaining rural households, are going on continuously. Public participation has also been ensured in planning under the mission, so that the villagers maintain affinity in the water supply scheme – Window to News
