Kerala is way behind the nationwide common in offering absolutely purposeful faucet water connections to rural households, Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, mentioned right here on Wednesday.
The minister, after assembly Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and reviewing the progress made within the space with the officers, mentioned the state wants “extra tempo, extra synergy, and extra spending” in the important thing sector to realize the central authorities’s bold goal of offering clear consuming water for each family by 2024.
Addressing a press convention, Shekhawat mentioned the pan-India common is greater than 60 per cent and “we had been in a position to present greater than 8.5 crore connections over the interval of the final three years, however the state of Kerala is way behind the nationwide common.”
Kerala has up to now supplied faucet water connections to round 47 per cent of households.
The minister mentioned that although the whole variety of homes within the state is 70 lakhs, solely 34.17 lakh homes have piped water connections.
He mentioned Kerala joined the programme one 12 months after it was launched and within the three years there’s “super progress however nonetheless, they haven’t reached 50 per cent marks.”
The minister mentioned all 70 lakhs households are to be linked with piped water, and the whole price of the tasks that should be accomplished is nearly Rs 40,000 crores.
Though the Centre made an allocation of Rs 9,000 crore within the final three years, the state might solely spend Rs 6,400 crore, he famous.
“Throughout the assembly, now we have requested the state of Kerala by means of the Chief Minister and the officers that they should additional expedite, implementation and enhance the tempo of works and fund utilisation”, Shekhawat mentioned.
The Chief Minister and officers apprised him that land acquisition is an enormous drawback and guaranteed him that they may look into one other mannequin of acquisition to expedite the method.
He mentioned states like Goa, Haryana, Gujarat, Telangana, Bihar, and Punjab have nearly achieved 100 per cent faucet water connection. Barring Jammu and Kashmir, all different Union Territories have additionally achieved 100 per cent standing.
The Jal Jeevan Mission was introduced by the Prime Minister on August 15, 2019 to supply each rural family with a faucet water connection by 2024.
On the time of the launch of the mission in 2019, out of 19.35 crore rural households, solely 3.23 Crore (16.72 per cent) had entry to faucet water.
As on date, inside a brief span of about three years because the life-changing mission, over 60 per cent of rural households have faucet water provide of their houses, Shekhawat mentioned.
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