Owing to the sustained efforts of the Yogi Adityanath government to provide pure and safe piped drinking water in the water-stressed regions, under the Har Ghar Nal Scheme, potable water has reached as many as 59,202 houses, benefiting nearly 2,36,808 people.

Ensuring that no person suffers from shortage of pure water this summer, the Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply departments are working on a war footing to provide the benefits of schemes like Har Ghar Nal to hundreds of villages in seven districts of Bundelkhand and two districts of Vindhya, which are facing water scarcity.

In addition, various older schemes have also been started afresh in Bundelkhand and Vindhya. With this scheme of retrofitting, water supply is being provided to more than 1,02,445 houses and more than 4,09,780 people have been benefited.

The government has completed water-supply related works under the scheme in more than 60,000 villages, due to which these areas are now getting water supply in abundance.

With the efforts of the government, water connections have been provided to more than 1,037 houses in Jhansi. Water connections have been given to more than 5,414 houses in Lalitpur, 5,203 houses in Jalaun, 5,779 houses in Hamirpur, 9,658 houses in Banda, 2,902 houses in Chitrakoot and to 11,279 houses in Mahoba.

Besides, the government is also working on a mission-mode to provide functional household connections to over 17,930 households in Mirzapur and 3,21,403 households in Sonbhadra.

In the nine districts of Bundelkhand and Vindhyachal, old schemes have been completed by Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply departments in a time-bound manner. Nearly 59 out of 62 retrofitting schemes have been completed in Mirzapur and more than 24,150 households have received pure water.

Water connections have been given to more than 10,974 houses in Sonbhadra. Besides, 9,156 households in Jalaun, 20,969 in Jhansi, 1,450 in Lalitpur and over 11,966 households in Mahoba have been benefited.

Water supply connections have been provided to more than 10,554 households in Hamirpur, 835 households in Chitrakoot, and in 12,391 households in Banda.

In arsenic affected areas of Bundelkhand and Vindhya, Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply departments are working to provide drinking water supply to more than 26,900 houses, benefiting over 1,07,600 people. Through two ongoing schemes in Jalaun, water connections have been provided to 1,189 houses in Jalaun, 2,400 in Jhansi, 5,184 in Lalitpur, and to over 5,062 houses in Mahoba. Water connections have also been given to 1,686 families in Hamirpur, 1,219 in Chitrakoot, and to 4,596 households in Banda.