WD News: Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, Shahjahanpur of Uttar Pradesh has created history in providing tap connections to every household in rural areas. Shahjahanpur has become number one in the country in providing maximum tap connections in a month.
According to the data given on the website of Jal Jeevan Mission, Bulandshahr, Bareilly, Mirzapur have also got a place in this survey. This success is being considered as a big leap of the Uttar Pradesh government in the matter of rural drinking water supply.
Shahjahanpur, Bulandshahr, Bareilly, Mirzapur districts should be on top in providing employment to the youth along with providing tap connections to the rural people. Various parameters like water quality, training of water testing to women have also come true.
In this survey, districts are selected across the country on the basis of the marks obtained on the basis of the progress of the scheme.
Shahjahanpur, Bulandshahr and Bareilly have been registered in the best performing districts of UP in the month of October.
In the ranking of districts, Shahjahanpur has secured the first place in the best performing category by getting total marks of 6,89,990. Bulandshahr is at the second place by getting 6, 57,180 points and Bareilly is at the third place by getting 6,19,114 points. Shahjahanpur of UP is at the first place, Mirzapur at the second and Bulandshahr at the third place among the fastest growing districts in the month of October.
Till the month of December, the work of providing more than 90 percent tap connections in Bundelkhand is being done on a war footing. The officers of the department are working to fulfill the target in other districts of the state.
Districts are Selected in Five Categories
In Jal Jeevan Survekshan-2023, districts across the country are selected in five categories. In four categories, the districts providing 100 percent tap connections in a month in front runner, the districts providing 75 to 100 percent tap connections in the category of high achievers and achievers, the districts providing 50 to 75 percent tap connections in the category of performers. In the category and districts giving 0 to 25 percent tap connections are included in the aspirant category.
Shahjahanpur made the first position in the aspirant category by giving 28,419 tap connections in October alone. According to the Jal Jeevan Mission website, till October 31, the figure of providing tap connections reached 72,976.
Bulandshahr provided 21,260 tap connections to every household in October. Till October 31, the number of tap connections reached 1,18, 389. Bulandshahr has made a place in the aspirant category as the second state to give 6 percent FHTC in a month. In one month, 119 women were trained in water testing here.
Bareilly district made third place in the aspirant category by giving 82,056 22 tap connections and 448 women were trained for water testing in a month.
Shahjahanpur district achieved this success by fulfilling the criteria of the aspirational category of providing tap water to every household, due to which it has got full marks in the survey. In the efforts being made for the purity of water in the district, Shahjahanpur remained ahead of all districts in testing water and providing training (FTK) to the maximum number of women, 933, in October alone.
Source: Daily News Post
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