Centre Starts 100-Day Campaign For Safe Water Supply In Schools
Ministry of Jal Shakti has introduced a 100-day marketing campaign to verify potable water provide.
New Delhi:
The Ministry of Jal Shakti on Friday introduced a 100-day marketing campaign to verify secure consuming water provide in all faculties and anganwadi facilities around the nation.
Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat asked the states and Union territories to make it a “Jan Andolan” (other people’s motion). He mentioned he has written to leader ministers and lieutenant governors, soliciting for them to steer the marketing campaign of their respective areas.
Talking throughout the release of the development, the minister mentioned the initiative will probably be a becoming tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 151st start anniversary on Friday.
“Top Minister Narendra Modi, whilst launching the brand of “Jal Jeevan Undertaking” (JJM) on September 29, referred to as for making sure consuming water provide in all faculties and anganwadi centres within the nation.
“On this backdrop, we’re launching a 100-day marketing campaign to verify the similar. We’re asking the entire state governments to verify piped consuming water in all faculties and anganwadi centres in subsequent 100 days,” Mr Shekhawat mentioned.
The ”Jal Jeevan Undertaking Ghar Jal” targets to offer faucet water provide to families with particular focal point on girls and youngsters via 2024.
Making sure secure water to youngsters is a concern beneath JJM as they’re maximum prone to water-borne illnesses like typhoid, dysentery, diarrhoea and cholera.
The location is a lot more complicated in spaces the place water resources are discovered to be infected with arsenic, fluoride and different heavy metals, and extended intake of water having those contaminants would possibly result in degenerating illnesses like arsenicosis, fluorosis amongst others, leading to critical well being issues, he mentioned.
To take on those critical problems, provisions had been made via the ministry for making sure secure water thru faucet water connection in faculties, anganwadi centres and well being care centres, he mentioned.
