Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday asked officials to speed up the work of extending piped drinking water to every house under the rural water supply scheme. The CM, while reviewing the works of the Drinking Water and Sanitation department, instructed officials to complete the work in a timely manner so that over 54 lakh houses in the State can be covered under the scheme.
The CM said that under the Minor Water Supply Scheme, water is being made available to the villagers through solar-based boring at the Panchayat / Tola level, it is necessary to make the villagers aware of its maintenance. There should not be any kind of lethargy regarding its maintenance. Increase the size of recharge pits being constructed in rural area. It is also necessary to pay attention to the promotion of ground-water.
Soren asked to share videos related to the drinking water supply scheme being provided to the primitive tribe family residing in Sahebganj, Dumka and other places.
Also, he directed to complete the work of 260 schemes under construction soon. Whatever inter-departmental matters are there in completing the drinking water supply scheme, the problem should be resolved by calling a meeting at the Chief Secretary level, he said.
The CM said that a survey of toilets constructed under Swachh Bharat Mission should be conducted so as to ascertain whether the beneficiaries are using it or not. “There is a need for behavioural change in people. Also, all toilets must have a water facility. Also pay attention to the construction of community toilets, keeping in mind the consent of villagers and their needs. Select large, medium and small tolas for building community toilets. These toilets can be maintained through MGNREGA,” he said.
The CM took details of the amount and allocation and expenditure for rural piped water supply scheme, rural drilled tubewell water supply scheme, rural water supply scheme repair and maintenance, urban water supply scheme repair and maintenance, water life mission, clean India mission, updated status of implementation of schemes, approval of new schemes and status of their implementation, component of major water supply scheme, component of small water supply scheme, large rural water supply scheme, urban water supply scheme approved by urban development department, physical progress of water life mission, the status of home connection, amount received from Government of India and updated status of its expenditure, information about pending cases related to department institutions from the officers of the department.
In the meeting, Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Department Mithilesh Kumar Thakur, Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh, Development Commissioner KK Khandelwal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Rajiv Arun Ekka, Secretary, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation Prashant Kumar, Director Swachh Bharat Mission Nancy Sahay, Chief Engineer, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation and other departmental officials were present.