Public participation will be encouraged in Jal Jeevan Mission – CM Chouhan
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Category : BHOPAL
Anganwadi and schools should be provided tap connection on priority
Ensure third party appraisal of projects by technically skilled and competent groups – States Union Minister Patel
Meeting held on Jal Jeevan Mission and Ken-Betwa Link Project
Bhopal 18 December 2021: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that public participation would be encouraged by organizing Jal Sammelan in Jal Jeevan Mission. A campaign will be launched with the aim of developing a sense of responsibility among the people for depositing water charges in villages. In the mission, every effort will be made to implement canal irrigation for irrigation in Panna, Damoh area. There should be no hurry to accomplish the goal. Where there is a certified source of ground water, the system of water supply should be ensured in the mission. The ground water level in Bundelkhand region is receding fast. There is a need to focus more on group schemes in this area. Chief Minister Chouhan was addressing a meeting organized on Jal Jeevan Mission and Ken Betwa link at Mantralaya in the presence of Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Food Processing, Industries Prahlad Patel, Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Tribal Affairs Vishweshwar Tudu and State’s Minister of State for Public Health Engineering Brijendra Singh Yadav. Water Resources Minister Tulsi Silawat took part virtually in the meeting.
Chief Minister Chouhan said that under Jal Jeevan Mission, tap connections should be made available to Anganwadis and schools on priority basis. For the purpose of providing water from tap, if the pipeline is weak, then the connection of the scheme should not be made with those pipelines. A whole new pipeline should be laid in place of the old weak pipelines. With this, the benefits of the new scheme will be available equally to all the people of the settlement. Chief Minister Chouhan informed that no work was done in the Jal Jeevan Mission during the previous government. After that, the work of Jal Jeevan Mission has been affected as a result of dealing with the challenge of Corona. Despite these circumstances, the progress of Jal Jeevan Mission in the state is satisfactory.
State Union Minister Prahlad Patel said that third party evaluation of all projects must be done. The task of evaluation should be entrusted to technically skilled and competent groups and individuals. Planning and implementing the Jal Jeevan Mission with the beneficiaries will lead to success in providing irrigation facility in maximum area and drinking water facility in more settements. The innovations taking place in Malwa and Nimar region in this regard should be followed in other parts of the state also.
It was informed in the meeting that 8.11 lakh hectares of annual irrigation facility will be available to Madhya Pradesh under Ken-Betwa link project. In Ken-Cachar area of the state, 18 tehsils and 1376 villages will get irrigation and drinking water facility. In Betwa-Cachar area, 10 tehsils and 673 villages will get irrigation and drinking water facility. Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, tap water has been provided to 26 lakh 88 thousand families since May-2020 under the group Nal-Jal Yojana. Drinking water testing laboratories of all districts are NABL certified to provide quality water.
Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, Additional Chief Secretary Water Resources SN. Mishra, Additional Chief Secretary Public Health Engineering Malay Srivastava, Principal Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development Umakant Umrao and other officers were present – Window to News
