Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 14 (ANI): With the goal to offer clear consuming to each village and to make the 77th Independence Day memorable, the Yogi Adityanath-led Government is gearing as much as present faucet water to a complete of 9 crore villagers of Uttar Pradesh below the Har Ghar Jal Yojana of Jal Jeevan Mission.
On Independence Day, the faucet water provide will begin to greater than 1.5 crore homes in rural areas of UP. It would be the first time that greater than half of the agricultural households of the state might be related to faucet water.
The faucet water provide will save rural girls the effort and time of travelling lengthy distances to fetch water and likewise shield the well being of the villagers by offering them with protected potable water.
While reviewing the preparations of offering faucet connections to 1.5 crore rural households of UP by August 15, Anurag Srivastava, Principal Secretary, Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department, directed the officers that the tempo of offering faucet connections per day shouldn’t be diminished.
“The organizations working in villages should celebrate the 77th Independence Day with the families who got tap connections. The gift of tap water given to 9 crore villagers on Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav year is a big achievement for the government”, he mentioned.
It is noteworthy that the Yogi authorities has been engaged on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Jal Jeevan Mission expeditiously. At the time of the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission on August 15, 2019, just one.97 per cent of rural households had entry to faucet water. In the previous 4 years, faucet connections have been offered to 56.83 per cent of the agricultural households in UP.
Despite having a big inhabitants, Uttar Pradesh is the state that gives the very best variety of faucet connections per day within the nation. Under the Har Ghar Jal Yojana, faucet water is being offered to greater than 40,000 houses per day.
Besides, the faucet water provide has began to 1,49,14,331 rural households below the ‘Har Ghar Jal’ scheme until Sunday. More than 8.94 crore villagers have began getting the direct advantage of pure consuming water.
The goal of the ‘Har Ghar Jal’ scheme is to offer faucet water to greater than 2.62 crore households of UP by the yr 2024. (ANI)