Water & Sanitation: Nearly 82 percent of the work on the ‘Nal Se Jal’ project has been completed and all households in Gujarat will get tap water connections by 2022, announced Chief Minister Vijay Rupani at the state legislative assembly. The Gujarat government had allocated INR 4,000 crore for the scheme.
With 17 lakh households still to be covered under the scheme, the chief minister said that the government would provide tap water connections to all households in the next 17 months at the pace of one lakh households every month. “We want to eliminate our dependence on hand pumps and provide drinking water through tap connections. Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a target of the year 2024, Gujarat will meet this target in the next 17 months,” he said.
The ‘Nal Se Jal’ scheme, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2019, aims to provide a functional tap water connection to every rural household by 2024.
The Gujarat government is using lift irrigation technology to bring water to households. Rupani added that providing tap water connections in remote tribal and mountainous regions was proving to be difficult.
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