Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed displeasure over the Public Well being Engineering (PHE) Division’s ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ work, asking the officers involved to examine whether or not water is reaching the households or not.
Banerjee, who held a gathering at Nabanna on the progress of the ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ with Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and high officers of PHE Division, raised a query mark on the challenge, saying she has concrete data that in lots of instances pipelines had been put in however water was not reaching the households.
“The administration is answerable for offering consuming water to each home. Merely putting in pipelines doesn’t guarantee water provide. In all the homes the place the pipelines go, it have to be ensured that the water is definitely reaching there,” the CM stated.
The state has set a goal of offering consuming water connection to each family within the state by April 2025. In all, 1.77 crore homes are purported to be given water connections.
The PHE Division claims to have offered water connections to 90 p.c of houses.
Later, in a press convention, the Chief Minister stated, “I’ve obtained complaints that many contractors have laid pipelines with out soil testing and water supply verification. If the allegations are discovered to be true after investigation, strict motion will likely be taken towards such contractors. The DGP ought to look into the matter and provides the duty to a particular process drive (STF).”
Concentrating on the Central authorities, Banerjee stated, “The state authorities spends some huge cash to ship consuming water. However the Centre solely promotes itself. Rs 55,000 crore has already been spent on this. One other Rs 66,000 crore are within the pipeline. Actually, 90 per cent value of the challenge is borne by the state.”
