Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 9: Modi Government’s Jal Jeevan Mission (Har Ghar Nal Se Jal) is giving a new impetus to Nation’s development, stated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State Incharge for Jal Jeevan Mission Thakur Narayan Singh at BJP headquarter, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu.
Thakur Narayan Singh along with J&K BJP secretary Vikas Choudhary (Co-Incharge, Har Ghar Nal Se Jal) was addressing a press conference. They were accompanied by J&K BJP office secretary Tilak Raj Gupta and BJP media secretary Dr Pardeep Mahotra.
Addressing media persons, Narayan Singh said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken about Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) on 15th August 2019 and under this Mission, massive changes have taken place in the field of groundwater management, water conservation and rainwater harvesting. He said Modi took the campaign of providing water from tap to every household under Jal Jeevan Mission.
“Even after 70 years of independence, people had to yearn for water. The Congress and its allied Governments never did anything for this. Women had to bring water from far and wide in the scorching sun. ‘Har Ghar Nal Se Jal Yojana’ is another example of empowerment of the poor,” he added.
Singh said before the Modi Government came to power, only 16.75% of the households in the country had access to tap water, whereas in just two years after the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission, today about 49% households have access to pure drinking water from the tap. “The way water has reached crores of homes in less than the last 3 years, is a great example of public aspirations and public participation,” he added.
He said that under the Mission, Rs 10,000 crore have been allotted to the Jammu & Kashmir and with these funds, 350 Tube Wells, 600 Borewells, 1100 filter plants, 350 overhead tanks, etc are to be constructed in the region. He also shared that in Jammu Province 9,87,000 households are to be covered out of which 5,33,000 households are already covered and 4,54,000 households are pending.
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