In order to provide round-the-clock clean and safe drinking water to all, the State Government has planned to invest Rs 4,380 crore in a span of 12 years. "The Government has drawn up an ambitious plan for investment of Rs 4,380 crore for providing at least 70 litres of water per capita per day and subsequently to increase it to 135 litres per capita per day in a span of 12 years," said Chief Minister while addressing a workshop on "Drinking water for all by 2020" here on Monday.
He said the Odisha State Urban Water Supply Policy-2013 envisages that all households shall have access to water through direct pipe connection and the urban poor shall receive all the facilities available to other residents at an affordable cost.
Now, the State Public Health Engineering Organisation is supplying more than 900 million litres of drinking water per day in the urban areas benefiting about 65 lakh people while 580 MlD of water is being provided through more than 10,000 pipe water supply projects to villages.