Jal Shakti Minister lauds success of Swachh Bharat, Says Govt to fulfil Jal Jeevan Mission by 2024

New Delhi: Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has said that the Government is taking all-out efforts to provide safe piped drinking water supply to all households in the country by 2024.

Inaugurating the one-day National Conference on ‘Provision of Potable Drinking Water in Quality-Affected Areas’, he said that the programme is being implemented in Mission mode as declared by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort last year.

Shekhawat stated that nearly 73 years after Independence only 18.33% of rural households or 3.27 crore out of around 18 crore rural households in the country have piped water connection. Globally, India is ranked a lowly 120 in terms of water quality parameters. [Readmore]