‘Water not reaching houses’: Mamata Banerjee on PHE Dept’s Jal Jeevan Mission work

“The medication is liable for providing drinking h2o to each house. Merely installing pipelines does not guarantee h2o supply. In each the houses wherever the pipelines go, it indispensable beryllium ensured that the h2o is really reaching there,” the CM said.

The authorities has acceptable a people of providing drinking h2o transportation to each household successful the authorities by April 2025. In all, 1.77 crore houses are expected to beryllium fixed h2o connections.

The PHE Department claims to person provided h2o connections to 90 percent of homes.

Later, successful a property conference, the Chief Minister said, “I person received complaints that galore contractors person laid pipelines without ungraded investigating and h2o root verification. If the allegations are recovered to beryllium existent aft investigation, strict enactment volition beryllium taken against specified contractors. The DGP should look into the substance and springiness the task to a peculiar task unit (STF).”

Targeting the Central government, Banerjee said, “The authorities authorities spends a batch of wealth to present drinking water. But the Centre lone promotes itself. Rs 55,000 crore has already been spent connected this. Another Rs 66,000 crore are successful the pipeline. In fact, 90 per cent outgo of the task is borne by the state.”