Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 3 (ANI): Setting a milestone on the beginning anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, the UP authorities supplied 1.07 lakh tap-water connections in rural areas in a single day, officers mentioned Sunday.
While the Yogi Adityanath authorities has set two data previously 20 days by way of new tap-water connections in rural areas, a number of states, together with Rajasthan, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra, even failed to succeed in the ten,000 mark, they mentioned.
On September 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday, the UP authorities set a document by offering about 1.21 lakh tap-water connections to rural households.
On Gandhi Jayanti, as many as 1.34 lakh tap-water connections had been supplied nationwide. Of them, UP alone accounted for over 1.07 lakh connections.
The districts of Bulandshahr, Shahjahanpur, Mirzapur, Varanasi, and Gorakhpur made essentially the most vital contributions to the document, serving to the state rank first within the nation.
According to an official assertion, different states that supplied tap-water connections on October 2 had been Tamil Nadu (10064), Andhra Pradesh (3121), Maharashtra (2954), West Bengal (2159), Rajasthan (2027), Chhattisgarh (1517), Orissa (1439), Karnataka (1422), Madhya Pradesh (696), Jharkhand (627), Uttarakhand (514) whereas, in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim, not even a single faucet water connection was supplied on the day.
The Yogi authorities has set a goal of guaranteeing 100 per cent saturation in consuming water in water-starved areas of Bundelkhand and Vindhya areas of the state by 2024.
Bulandshahr topped within the state by giving 7,506 tap-water connections, adopted by 6,418 in Shahjahanpur, 6,054 in Mirzapur, 5,047 in Varanasi, and 4,012 in Gorakhpur. Besides, 3,681 faucet -water connections had been put in in Bareilly, 2,857 in Sitapur, 2,516 in Deoria, 2,356 in Meerut, 2,158 in Hardoi, 2,488 in Gonda, and a couple of,023 in Shravasti.
So far, beneath the ‘Har Ghar Jal Scheme’, pure consuming water is being provided to as many as 48,43,733 homes by way of faucet connections in Uttar Pradesh, the assertion mentioned.
“Pure drinking water is being supplied from tap to households in 46,51,759 households in Odisha, 30,57,249 in Kerala, 29,28,134 in Rajasthan, 25,00,622 in Assam, 1,53,009 in Arunachal Pradesh, 14,39,077 in Jharkhand, 9,92,206 in Uttarakhand, 4,02,413 in Tripura, 3,34,864 in Manipur, and 2,57,794 in Meghalaya,” it added. (ANI)