Uttar Pradesh govt signs MoU with Centre on Clean Water

Lucknow ( Vivek Ojha) Providing pure drinking water to every resident in the state is the utmost priority of Uttar Pradesh government. For this, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced an initiative under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) recently.

Yogi Adityanath addressed a press conference and highlighted that over 10,000 of the state’s 1,05,000 revenue villages already have access to drinking water through pipelines. The new agreement ensures that contractors will remain responsible for infrastructure maintenance for a full decade after project completion to guarantee long-term service, he added. In this regard, a Memorendum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the centre and the Uttar Pradesh government.

The state of Uttar Pradesh has over 1,05,000 revenue villages, of which over 10,000 already have access to drinking water through pipelines. With the implementation of the scheme in Uttar Pradesh, we ensured that all the implementing agencies and contractors would be responsible for its maintenance for 10 years after the completion of the work,” the CM said.

CM Yogi Adityanath said that today, under the Jal Jeevan Mission, pure drinking water has become available in those villages and toilets have been built in every house. In areas where more than 50,000 deaths had occurred over 40 years, today I am happy to share that in the last five years, we have succeeded in bringing the death toll down to zero,”