The State Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) in joint association with NABARD will soon launch a community water supply project in Tamnar development block of the district.
The project would provide relief to people of three villages mainly Kasdol, Godi and Tamnar where ground water levels had been depleting fast.
The project would comprise constructing an Anicut on Kelo river in Kasdol village to reach water in the three villages.The State Government has approved more than Rs2.97 crore for the project.
Notably, the State Government has previously approved a total of 11 tap water projects involving a cost of Rs3.47 crore in Raigarh district. The projects have been approved under National Rural Drinking Water Programme.
The regions where the projects is to be implemented are—three villages in lailunga Development Block, Two villages each in Dharamjaigarh and Barakela development blocks and one village each in Sarangarh, Tamnar, Kharsia and Gharghoda development blocks. The tap water projects when ready would be operated and maintained by respective Panchayat bodies.
Chhattisgarh was ranked first in the country for providing domestic water connection in 2014-15 under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), officials stated.
This was the State’s second major achievement after bagging first position in the country for installing solar pumps.
The Central Government had given a target of 30,000 water connection for the year 2014-15 under the programme the objective of which is to provide pure drinking water to rural people to protect them from water borne diseases.
The State has provided 88,000 domestic water connections in 10 months of 2014-15 and this is more than 50 percent of total domestic connections provided in the State in past 42 years. In total, the number of domestic connections provided in rural areas has crossed the figure of 2.50 lakh, officials stated.
The PHED is providing safe and clean drinking water to the residents of 1,145 habitats in the State, officials stated. Earlier, the people in various districts had been getting drinking water with excess iron, hard water and fluoride content, they stated.