Jaipur, March 7. Chief Minister Mr Ashok Gehlot said that it is the top priority of the State Government to provide tap water supply to every household up to villages and hamlets in the State.
He said that the officers
working in this direction should provide relief to the general public by
completing the water projects on time. He said that delay in projects not only
increases the cost, but people too have to face difficulties.
Mr Gehlot was addressing the review meeting of the Public Health &
Engineering Department (PHED) through video conference from his official
residence on Sunday. He said that the budget announcements made in the last
three years and this year should be completed in the timeline. He directed to
immediately ensure the alternative arrangements of water sources based on the
contingency plan by assessing the requirements in all the districts.
The Chief Minister said, “While giving top priority to Jal Jeevan
Mission, effort should be made to complete the work of drinking water projects
related to it on time.” He said that testing of installing smart meters in the
urban areas in the State and its effective implementation should be done under
Mukhyamantri Rajneer Yojana. He said that a budget provision has been made to
install hand pumps and tube wells in each assembly constituency. For this,
appropriate spots should be identified for the installation of hand pumps and
tube wells by forming a committee of the department’s superintending engineer
and the concerned executive engineer headed by the district collector.
PHED Minister Mr Mahesh Joshi said that the department is working in a
time-bound frame for the timely completion of the works of Jal Jeevan Mission
along with other projects. He said, “It is our effort that people do not face
the problem of drinking water up to villages and hamlets in the State.”
Additional Chief Secretary PHED Mr Sudhansh Pant said that all district collectors have been provided Rs. 50 lakh
each for contingency plans looking at the summers, so that in case works
related to emergency requirements such as repairing of hand pumps, water supply
through tankers, digging new tube wells etc can be taken up immediately. He
said that technical approval for 8902 schemes have been issued out of 9766
projects sanctioned in Jal Jeevan Mission and work order for 5746 schemes has
been issued.
He said that more than 90% of work orders in small drinking water
schemes will be issued this month itself. It is targeted to complete around 80%
of the works in the scheme by December 2022. Under Jal Jeevan Mission, 43,267
Village Water and Sanitation Committees have been formed and action plans for
43,208 villages have been made, which is the highest in the country.
