Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the inspiration stone of rural beverage supply projects in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts of Vindhyachal region of Uttar Pradesh this morning through video conferencing.Mr Modi also will interact with Village Water and Sanitation Committee or Paani Samiti Members during the event.Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath also will be present on the occasion.
The projects will provide household water connections altogether rural households of two ,995 villages and can benefit about 42 lakh population of those districts.
Village Water and Sanitation Committees or Paani Samiti are constituted altogether these villages, who will shoulder the responsibility of operation and maintenance.
The total estimated cost of the projects is over Rs. 5,555 Crore. The projects are planned to be completed in 24 months.
Announced on 15th August last year by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of Red Fort, Jal Jeevan Mission aims to supply functional household tap connections to each rural home of the country by 2024.
At
the time of announcement of the mission in August, 2019, out of 18.93
Crore rural households, only 3.23 crore households or 17 per cent had water connections.
15.70 crore households to be given tap connections in next 4 years. In the last 15 months, despite Covid-19 pandemic, 2.63 crore households are given water connections.
At present about 5.86 crore or 30.67 per cent rural households are having water connections.
AIR correspondent reports, People are eagerly expecting the instant when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the inspiration stone of the 23 beverage projects in Vindhyachal region.
People were seen considerably enthused and feeling happy as these projects would transform the life-style of individuals during this backward area as at many places they need to fetch drinking water from miles away.
Really speaking these projects will solve an enormous problem of the people within the region because the water level here has gone down and tons of your time of individuals is wasted in collecting water.
Being this as plateau area, the matter is typically intensified during the summer season.
Drinking water has always been an enormous challenge in Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal region.
State government spokesperson told that there'll
be established 9 water treatment projects costing rupees 2,343 crores
in Mirzapur district and 14 projects costing Rs. 3,212 crores in
Sonbhadra district.More than 21 lakh 87 thousand population of 1,606
villages in Mirzapur district and 19 lakh 53 thousand population of
1,389 villages in Sonbhadra district are going to be benefited by these drinking water projects.
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