Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Wednesday directed to clear all 171 pending applications for electricity connections for drinking water tubewells in the State within next two weeks.
The Chief Minister chaired a meeting to review the arrangements made by the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) to ensure that there would be no shortage of drinking water during this summer season.
He called for promotion of innovative methods of water conservation like placing a brick in the cistern by the people of the state.
Manohar lal also called for launching of a statewide campaign to identify or rectify leakages in pipelines in the urban and rural areas, so as to prevent wastage as well as contamination of water.
He also directed the officers of Irrigation Department to ensure timely filling up of the storage tanks of all the 1461 canal water based works on top priority during the summer season.