Under the “Jal Jeevan Mission” Scheme, Haryana Government on Wednesday said it has reached the goal of providing Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to more than 1.44 lakh households within a month.
A spokesman of the Public Health Engineering Department said that according to the 2011 census, there are a total of 30.47 lakh houses in the rural areas of the State and of which of 53.47 percent of households already have regular/ functional water connections.
He informed that a three-phase action plan has been prepared by the State Government to provide 100 percent Functional Household Tap Connections by the year 2022.
It was informed that in the first phase, houses will be provided with a functional household tap. While, in the second phase, along with providing drinking water connection, pipeline laying, tubewell, booster, etc. will be completed and in the third and last phase, along with providing drinking water connections, the work will be completed of large raw water projects, multi village schemes, distribution systems, boosters, water treatment plants, etc.