Paying a special tribute to Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar on his 132nd birth anniversary, the Uttar Pradesh government has achieved a new milestone by providing tap water connections to over one crore rural families in the state.
Under the ambitious Jal Jeevan Mission of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Yogi Adityanath government has finished the major task of providing tap water to 1,00,37,256 rural families through the Har Ghar Jal Yojana. By 2024, the programme aims to make tap water available to more than 2.65 crore rural families.
On behalf of the Yogi government, Namami Gange and the Rural Water Supply department celebrated this outstanding accomplishment of the massive campaign to bring tap water to the homes of farmers, labourers and villagers in a grand manner throughout the state.
Jal Shakti Minister Swatantra Dev Singh and Managing Director of Jal Nigam (Rural), Dr Balkar Singh, arrived at the Daudnagar project in Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, and had food with the workers seated in a row. Congratulating all the officers, engineers and workers of the department for providing water to one crore rural families, the minister said that Babasaheb's dreams were being fulfilled by the Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath governments. He said UP would soon reach its goal for the Har Ghar Jal Yojana.
UP has become the first state in the country to provide 40,000 tap connections daily. In terms of the number of tap connections given, UP has climbed to third position among the major states in the nation. The campaign to provide water to every rural household is continuously setting new dimensions in UP. Only 5,16,000 rural families had access to tap water in 2019, but the Har Ghar Jal Yojana has set a record for rapidly supplying clean drinking water to one crore rural families in UP.
In Bundelkhand, which was earlier deprived of government schemes, the target of providing tap water to every house is being fulfilled very quickly.
In Mahoba, which has risen to the top spot among the districts with the most tap connections, tap water is available to 84.78 per cent of rural households. In this area, 1,13,211 rural families out of 1,33,529 have access to tap water connections. Lalitpur district, which is in second place, is also making rapid progress toward achieving the goal. It has also provided tap water to 73.22 per cent of rural families. In Mirzapur, 72.18 per cent of rural families have access to tap water, while in Jalaun, 61.48 per cent have this facility.
In the Purvanchal region, more than 50 per cent of rural families in the districts of Gorakhpur and Deoria now have access to clean drinking water, a gift that will benefit lakhs of villagers.
