Tag: Drinking Water

French agency extends funding for drinking water project in Puducherry by two years

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The comprehensive drinking water project planned by the Puducherry government at an outlay of Rs 523 crore got a fresh lease of life with the French government development agency agreeing to extend the funding by another two years for implementing the project. This was agreed upon after the Puducherry government delegation, led by PWD Minister K Lakshminarayanan, held discussions with the officials of Agence Francaise De Development (AFD), the French agency, led by Bruno Boyle, Country Director for India, a couple of days ago. “They have agreed to extend the…

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Record 80m rural households have piped drinking water under Jal Jeevan Mission

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Record 80m rural households have piped drinking water under Jal Jeevan Mission

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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DRINKING WATER, AIR LINK & POWER – ANY QUANTITY ANYWHERE IN INDIA

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By Dr. Jagjit Singh Sehra, President, CST Associates In the last edition of EA (September 2020), the author mentioned that our country India has seawater on three sides. We can never have drinking water problems. The coastal line of India is 7516.6 Kms long. This is the 15th Largest Coastal line out of 198 countries. There are so many countries that don’t have any coastal line. Railway traces in India is 1,23,542 Kms, which is 4th in the world. India has 7,349 railway stations, reaching remote areas of the country.…

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