Indore Administrative Division Tops in Jal Jeevan Mission | 26 Mar 2022
Why in News?
- Indore Administrative Division has become the topper in the state by supplying drinking water through household tap connections to the entire rural population of the state under the Jal Jeevan Mission by March 25, 2022.
Key Points
- So far 9 lakh 67 thousand rural families have been provided water through tap connections in Indore division through the mission.
- The mission includes 387 water bodies in Indore district, 412 in Dhar district, 425 in Jhabua district, 265 in Barwani district, 114 in Alirajpur district, 380 in Khargone district, 313 in Khandwa district and 83 in Burhanpur district.
- So far 2379 water supply schemes costing Rs 2671 crore 69 lakh 32 thousand have been approved by the Public Health Engineering Department in eight districts of Indore division.
- The work of all the water supply schemes approved by the department in the form of new and retrofitting for these districts is going on continuously as per the parameters of the mission.