Taking note of people falling sick owing to the consumption of contaminated water, Ballari Lok Sabha member Y. Devendrappa has directed officials to focus on implementing multi-village drinking water supply schemes to provide safe drinking water to people in rural areas.
He also expressed discontentment over the implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission, a Union government programme for supplying safe tap water for drinking to every household in rural areas, in the district.
“The implementation of the Mission is unsatisfactory. In many places, the drinking water supply projects taken up under the Mission have become defunct after work has been completed. The higher officials should constitute a committee to look into such projects and ensure that they are restarted. Moreover, the reverse osmosis plants have stopped functioning at many places and the officials concerned should take the issue seriously and address it,” Mr. Devendrappa said.
