Union minister of state for Food Processing industries and Jal ShakthiPrahlad Singh Patelhas urged the to strive harder to achieve the target on implementation of JalJeevanMission programme.
The Union minister, who arrived inKeralafor a two-day visit, was interacting with the media persons in Kochi on Thursday.
Pointing out that tap water connections reached more than 12 crore families across the country andthe nationalaverage of the mission is above 63%, the minister said that the implementation level of the programme in Kerala hasnt reached even 50%.
Jal Jeevan Mission is a major initiative by the central government through which the government aims to give tap water connections to all households by 2024.