Minister for Public Health Engineering Sukhdev Panse asked to take responsibility in the form of mission for supplying water through taps to the houses of the villagers. He was addressing the ‘Jal Jivan Mission’ Workshop held at Jal Bhavan. He mentioned that a concrete strategy should be made for River, Pond and Well conservation.
Panse further mentioned that the state government has taken a meaningful initiative to provide clean drinking water through ‘Right to Water Act’. It is responsibility of the departmental officer to ensure hundred percent implementation of this mission.
Panse told the officers that under the Jal Mission Yojana, not only targets should be achieved but the villagers must also get long term benefits. He mentioned that the active cooperation and financial participation of the common man should also be ensured in this scheme.
The Principal Secretary Sanjay Kumar Shukla said that although it is challenging to provide quality drinking water to rural families through domestic tap connections but it can be made successful by better planning. The Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Water and Sanitation, Government of India, Manoj Sahu said that 5 women in every village will be trained to test water quality through field test kits to ensure water quality. Along with this, water testing laboratories functioning at district and sub-division level will be certified by National Accreditation Board for Testing Calibration Laboratories (NABL) in a phased manner.
The Engineer in Chief CS Sankule, Engineer in Chief (Avisor) KK Sonagriya, Director of Jal Nigam BM Soni and departmental officers were present at the workshop.