Day long seminar on Jal Jeewan Mission held in Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur, Jan 21: A day long awareness workshop was organised by the district administration as part of the Jal Jiwan Mission at Rabindra Bhawan in Sakchi on Thursday.
Executive engineer of Jamshedpur region of drinking water and sanitation department, Shishir Soren who gave the introductory speech said that the department aims at linking each household in the district with piped drinking water along with focus on providing same facility for schools, hospitals and anganbari centres.
He also gave information and details about functional household tap connection (FHTC) and provision of piped water connection in each household in future and also advised about providing utility certificates on use of grants under 15th finance commission.
Addressing the function, Potka MLA, Sanjeev Sardar said that problem of water crisis is faced not only in rural areas but also in urban area and advised to take water shortage as a problem as soon as possible otherwise there would be acute shortage of water in the near future.
Baharagora MLA Sameer Mohanty expressed surprise that despite so many decades of Independence news about people using primitive method to avail drinking water is a matter of concern. He also said that the government is aiming at solving rural populace problem of fetching drinking water after traversing a distance of several kilometres.
East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Suraj Kumar said that there is a scheme for providing piped water connection in each houses of rural area and informed that nearly 45,000 houses have already been provided with piped water connection and that 15 per cent of the total of 3.6 lakh households have got this facility so far and the remaining 85 per cent will be getting this facility by 2024.
The deputy commissioner also asked the block development officers, executive engineers, assistant engineers and junior engineers to adopt villages in their feeder areas so that water connection is provided to such households at the earliest and work on a mission mode so that more and more villages are covered under the Jal Jeewan Mission.
He also advised that rural people participation should be encouraged in the effective implementation of the Jal Jeewan Scheme and in making of action plans so that hurdles would be removed at the initial stages.
