The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) has made necessary arrangements for provision of clean drinking water in a total of eight ‘fluoride affected’ villages in Bastar region.
This was informed in an official press release by PHED Executive Engineer SK Chandra. He said that the villages are being supplied water through transport. At the same time, each of the 105 settlements in 44 villages now have the ‘Flouride Removal Plant’ established in the region.
Chandra stared that there are 603 villages coming under 317 gram panchayats in Bastar region with a total of 9,227 hand pumps established in the villages. He said that water had been tested successfully from 3,554 handpumps in 263 villages in Bastar.
The tests have revealed that the fluoride content in 167 hand pumps were found higher than the prescribed standards in 44 villages, Chandra said.
Keeping this in mind, the State government has established a total of 105 ‘Fluoride Removal Plants’ in 105 settlements of 44 villages in Bastar region, he said.
This is not all, the five fluoride affected development blocks of Bastar and six villages of Bakavad Development Block totalling 11 are now receiving water through a transport arrangement made for the villages, Chandra said. However, with the setting up of the ‘flouride removal plant’ a total of eight villages are being transported clean drinking water through transport, he said.
The eight villages which are receiving clean drinking water through transport in Bastar Development Block are —Khandsara, Nandpura, Turpura, Kesharpal of Bajarpara while in Bakawand Development Block the same is being supplied in Jaibel, Dimrapal, Badejirakhal and Garenga villages, he said.