All houses in five districts of Gujarat to have piped water connection by 2nd October: Rupani

Gandhinagar: Each house in five districts of Gujarat will have piped water connection for drinking water supply by 2nd October this year, said Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani here today in reference to his meeting over video conferencing with union Jal Shakti minister Gajendrasingh Shekhavat regarding planning and implementation of ‘Jal Jivan Mission’ in the State.

Rupani said, Gandhinagar, Botad, Vadodara,Porbandar and Mehsana are five district where 100 per cent houses in each village will have piped drinking water supply.

Gujarat will complete the targets under Centre’s ‘Jal Jivan Mission’ in year 2022, two years ahead of the prescribed target of 2024, Rupani said.

The Chief Minister during video conference told that the State government had implemented an innovating drinking water distribution programme in public participation through WASMO, initiated in year 2002.

He said, the State has given drinking water pipe connection to 68.63 lakh of 93.03 lakh rural houses in addition to planned 11.15 connections to be given in year 2020-21. This year, since 1st April, 2.46 lakh rural houses have been covered with piped water connections. The Centre has allocated Rs.883.08 crore for year 2020-21 in addition to Rs. 1777.56 crore portion of State government contribution.

Rupani said, Rs. 3195 crore sum has been allocated to local bodies in Gujarat under 15th finance commission provisions, 50 per cent of which has to be spend over water supply and sanitation compulsorily. He said, out of 18,191 villages, 17,899 are having the system of piped water supply. By December this year, 6,000 villages will have 100 per cent piped water supply. For rest of the villages, surfaced based water system has been taken up which shall complete in two years.

The Chief Minister also informed union minister about internet of things based censor monitoring system pilot projects that are functional in 1,000 villages of two districts. Once these two project achieve success, the system will be rolled out in all villages of the State. DeshGujarat