ACB Raj Police registers case against ex-minister in Jal Jeevan Mission scam
According to ACB officials, as many as 22 people, including some employees and functionaries of contractor firms are named as accused in the FIR lodged in this connection.
According to ACB officials, as many as 22 people, including some employees and functionaries of contractor firms are named as accused in the FIR lodged in this connection.
In a significant achievement of Uttar Pradesh, no death has been reported deaths from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) so far this year, according to data from the Jal Jeevan Mission here on Thursday.
On Monday, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil reviewed the mission's progress in UP during a meeting in New Delhi.
Amid the widespread destruction caused by floods across Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma praised the Jal Jeevan Mission for its role in providing clean drinking water to affected communities.
The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) on Tuesday achieved another milestone of providing tap water connections to 13 crore rural households.…
Odisha plans to become 'Har Ghar Jal' state in 2024.
Informing about the developments under the Jal Jeevan Mission, Bharat Lal, Additional Secretary & Mission Director, National Jal Jeevan Mission said, "At the start of the mission in 2019, out of 19.20 Crore rural households in the country, only 3.23 Crore (17%) had tap water supply.
"This is the first of its kind institute in the country that will focus on water and sanitation. It will prepare an entire generation to benefit for next 30-40 years and can carry on easily the operations and maintenance (O&M) for the water and sanitation sector," Bharat Lal, Additional Secretary and Mission Director, National Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), said.
State Congress leaders even did not spare their own Central leaders and raised a bill worth Rs 12 crore as expenditure during the pandemic.
The Prime Minister will also launch the Jal Jeevan Mission App for improving awareness among stakeholders and for greater transparency and accountability of schemes under the Mission, according to PMO note here.
