Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 6 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh on Thursday outdated Rajasthan and have become the third state of the nation by way of variety of connections faucet water connections beneath ‘Har Ghar Nal Yojana’.
According to the obtainable statistics, UP has offered 97,11,717 faucet connections, that are benefitting greater than 5,82,70,302 villagers of UP, in opposition to 39,33,140 in Rajasthan until Thursday.
With this, greater than 5 crore villagers have began ingesting pure water beneath the Har Ghar Jal Yojana of the Jal Jeevan Mission. According to Anurag Srivastava, Principal Secretary, Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department, the federal government’s resolve to offer water to each family in UP’s 36.59 per cent rural households has been fulfilled Rajasthan, faucet water has reached 36.47 per cent of rural households.
In UP greater than 40,000 households are being given faucet connections each day, in opposition to 5,000 in Rajasthan. Notably, on account of steady evaluate of the Har Ghar Jal Yojana by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, within the month of February, faucet water reached 81 lakh households in UP with the state leaving Jharkhand and West Bengal lagging behind.
According to the official, the Yogi authorities is taking the Government of India’s Jal Jeevan Mission scheme in the direction of the goal on the quickest tempo and is about to say the primary place within the nation quickly. “Our aim is to provide clean drinking water to the villages, the poor and the farmers at every doorstep,” the federal government stated. (ANI)