18 lakh rural population get piped water, says Madhya Pradesh govt

Piped water is being provided to remote areas and tribal dominated areas underJal Jeevan MissioninMadhya Pradesh. Officials said providing water through tap connections in schools and anganwadis, including rural families in tribal areas is done at rapid pace.

Drinking water has been provided through tap connections to more than 18 lakh rural Population in 20 tribaldominated districts in the state. Since the inception of the mission, about one lakh population has been provided with this facility every month, which is more than 42% of rural households in tribal dominated districts.

Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that it was with the intention of Har Ghar Nal and Har Nal se Jal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while announcing Jal Jeevan Mission from Red Fort on August 15, 2019, had said that in the next five years, we will have to do four times more work than the work done in the last 70 years.

In Jal Jeevan Mission, the states have to fulfill their targets by the year 2024. Prime Minister Modi had said that when the country works sincerely to fulfill its resolves, then reforms and changes take place.

Jal Jeevan Mission is providing drinking water to the tribal families living in rural and remote areas of the state through tap connection at a fast pace.