By PTI
NEW DELHI: Even although the federal government’s flagship Jal Jeevan Mission has on a median coated 50 per cent rural households within the nation, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand proceed to have under 25 per cent protection of useful faucet water connection.
Uttar Pradesh has the bottom protection at 13.75 per cent, adopted by Jharkhand at 20.01 per cent, Chhattisgarh 23.26 per cent and Rajasthan at 24.58 per cent, in response to official knowledge.
The authorities’s flagship initiative goals to offer secure and enough ingesting water by way of particular person family faucet connections by 2024 to all households in rural India.
Of the 19.13 crore rural households within the nation, 9.59 crore of them have entry to useful faucet water connections.
Goa, Telangana, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Puducherry and Haryana have already achieved 100 per cent family water connections, whereas Punjab, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar have coated greater than 90 per cent households and are progressing quick in the direction of attaining the standing of ‘Har Ghar Jal’, in response to official knowledge.
On Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand, a senior official mentioned it was a matter of concern and the Centre was working with states to resolve the problems.
The official mentioned regardless that protection was low in these states, groundwork for establishing useful faucet water connections was at a sophisticated stage and outcomes would quickly be seen.
Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, faucet water connections are additionally being supplied to authorities colleges, gram panchayat workplaces, group well being centres (CHCs) and anganwadi centres.
According to official knowledge, faucet water provide has been given to eight.6 lakh colleges, 8.89 lakh anganwadi centres, and three.51 lakh gram panchayat workplaces and CHCs.
Among states and union territories, Jharkhand has the bottom protection of faucet water connections in colleges and anganwadi centres at 17.99 per cent and 4.57 per cent, respectively.
