13,409 villages in state but to get piped consuming water: Odisha minister Pradip Kumar Amat

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: The State authorities on Tuesday knowledgeable the Assembly that 13,409 villages in Odisha are but to get piped consuming water. Replying to a written query by Congress MLA Tara Prasad Bahinipati, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Minister Pradip Kumar Amat stated pipe water connections have been offered to 33,884 out of 47,293 villages of the State. The  authorities has focused to attach all of the villages with piped water by the top of 2024.

 He stated {that a} saturation plan has additionally been ready for Koraput district to supply faucet water to all hamlets and slums by the focused interval. Participating within the dialogue, BJP MLA Bishnu Sethi stated the State authorities has completely failed to fulfill the fundamental wants of the folks. 

Though the federal government has put up signal boards of ‘Har Ghar Jal’ in every single place, the image within the discipline is kind of totally different. “Our constituents are constantly probing when their houses will be connected with tap water but we have no answers. Many times we have to say that the government is not listening as we are in the Opposition. Shall the people represented by Opposition members have no right to get tap water, they question,” Sethi stated.

Referring to the mega consuming water undertaking at Rajakanika in Kendrapara district that it’s hanging fireplace as a consequence of opposition from locals, Sethi stated this undertaking on completion will meet the consuming water and irrigation want of Chandbali, Dhamra, Tihidi and Basudevpur blocks of Bhadrak districts. He urged the Minister to see that the undertaking is executed quickly.