Official data show there has been a four-fold increase in the rate at which functional piped water is being provided to households in India’s 117 so-called aspirational districts, home to some of the poorest Indians, overtaking the pace at which piped water is bring provided nationally under the flagship Jal Jeevan Mission.Over a third of all households in aspirational and Japanese-encephalitis-endemic districts of the country now have piped water under the Mission. According to Niti Aayog’s classification, aspirational districts are those with a lower than the national average of socio-economic…
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