50% households not drinking Mission Bhagiratha water: Seethakka
4 hours, 7 minutes ago

50% households not drinking Mission Bhagiratha water: Seethakka

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Minister for panchayati raj and rural development, women and child welfare, Danasari Seethakka, said nearly 50 per cent of households with water connections under Mission Bhagiratha are not using its water for drinking purposes. In an exclusive interview with Deccan Chronicle, Seethakka discussed various issues, including infrastructure development — such as roads and bridges to improve rural connectivity — water facilities in villages, and the “Indiramma Mahila Shakti” scheme. There are also questions about why and when the Congress government allegedly stopped supplying Mission Bhagiratha water to households — particularly the poorest — based on claims by the BRS. Last year, we spent Rs 60 crore to improve drinking water facilities, repair Mission Bhagiratha pipelines, dig new borewells, and flush old ones in Komaram Bheem Asifabad district.

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Telangana: Seethakka expresses concern over rejection of Mission Bhagiratha water
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Telangana: Seethakka expresses concern over rejection of Mission Bhagiratha water

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:Panchayat raj and rural development minister Danasari Seethakka Anasuya on Wednesday said the continuing reluctance of people in many villages in the state to use Mission Bhagiratha water for drinking purposes was a matter of concern and efforts must be made by officials to remove apprehensions among people on this issue. The minister, who reviewed matters relating to this issue …

Telangana Government Takes up Household Survey on Status of Mission Bhagiratha in Villages
7 months ago

Telangana Government Takes up Household Survey on Status of Mission Bhagiratha in Villages

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: The Telangana government has taken up a household survey to ascertain the status of the Mission Bhagiratha scheme in villages and urban areas, vis-a-vis supply of drinking water to households across the state. The state government embarked on the survey following the reports that many villages are not being supplied drinking water under MB, and that there are no …

Door-to-door Survey of Mission Bhagiratha Soon
7 months, 1 week ago

Door-to-door Survey of Mission Bhagiratha Soon

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The state government will undertake a door-to-door survey of Mission Bhagiratha in rural areas across the state from next week to ascertain the genuineness of the BRS government's claims on providing tap connections to 100 per cent households since 2016. During a recent review meeting that was chaired by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, it was found that the …

Revanth seeks to aid water supply
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Revanth seeks to aid water supply

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy instructed officials to prepare an action plan to meet the increased demand for drinking water in the summer, including making village administrations responsible to supply water in their areas. He explained during a review meeting on panchayat raj and rural development department affairs that it would be easier and less expensive to supply drinking …

Agriculture, drinking water, health-related issues dominate quarterly KDP meeting
1 year, 6 months ago

Agriculture, drinking water, health-related issues dominate quarterly KDP meeting

The Hindu  

Issues related to agriculture, drinking water and health dominated the quarterly Karnataka Development Programme meeting in Yadgir on Monday. Drinking water Mr. Darshanapur and Mr. Kandkur and also Channareddy Patil Tunnur and Raja Venkatappa Naik, MLA of Yadgir and Shorapur, raised the issue of drinking water shortage. All MLAs including the Minister asked the officials of Karnataka Urban Drinking Water …

India can avoid 400k deaths if Jal Jeevan Mission meets target: WHO report
1 year, 7 months ago

India can avoid 400k deaths if Jal Jeevan Mission meets target: WHO report

Hindustan Times  

India can potentially prevent nearly 400,000 deaths from diarrhoea and save about 14 million DALYs from water-related ailments if it manages to achieve universal rural coverage under the Jal Jeevan Mission, a World Health Organization report commissioned by the government has predicted. The WHO analysis focused on diarrhoeal diseases as they account for a majority of water and sanitation-related disease …

Mission Bhagiratha failed in tribal areas: Bhatti
1 year, 9 months ago

Mission Bhagiratha failed in tribal areas: Bhatti

Deccan Chronicle  

KESLAPUR : CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka alleged that the Mission Bhagiratha scheme has failed to supply potable water to the people in rural and tribal areas in the district. Bhatti alleged that the BRS government had just painted the existing water tanks to boast that they were built under the Mission Bhagiratha scheme. But failed to repair damaged pipelines …

BJP dismisses TRS claims on fluoride in drinking water in Munugode
2 years, 2 months ago

BJP dismisses TRS claims on fluoride in drinking water in Munugode

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The BJP on Tuesday dismissed the TRS’ claims that it had solved the fluoride in drinking water problem in Munugode constituency, declaring that protected drinking water was supplied to the constituency way back in 2003-04 by the then NDA government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. Telangana BJP general secretary Dr S Prakash Reddy said, “TRS is doing what …

Centre says Mission Bhagiratha award limited in scope
2 years, 3 months ago

Centre says Mission Bhagiratha award limited in scope

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Centre has accused the Telangana government of ‘misleading’ people over the state receiving a national award for Mission Bhagiratha. The Central government’s Department of Water Resources has said the claims by the state government on the issue were not only misleading, but “were not based on facts.” In a statement released through the Press Information Bureau on Saturday, …

Centre says Telangana lying on Mission Bhagiratha award
2 years, 3 months ago

Centre says Telangana lying on Mission Bhagiratha award

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Telangana government has been accused of ‘misleading’ people over the state receiving a national award for Mission Bhagiratha. It may be recalled that on Thursday, the state government claimed that Mission Bhagiratha has been selected for a national award for supply of drinking water to all households in the state. In Saturday’s statement, issued through the Press Information …

Come to Telangana and learn from us, Harish to Union ministers
2 years, 3 months ago

Come to Telangana and learn from us, Harish to Union ministers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In light of the national award for the state government’s flagship project Mission Bhagiratha, finance minister T. Harish Rao on Thursday demanded that the Centre release funds to assist states such as Telangana that are performing well. Mission Bhagiratha had won the national award from the Jal Jeevan Mission for providing safe drinking water to all rural households on …

TRS MLAs face the heat over short supply of drinking water
2 years, 7 months ago

TRS MLAs face the heat over short supply of drinking water

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Hold-up of fund release for laying and repairing borewells in Adilabad under Mission Bhagiratha is ramping up pressure on the TRS MLAs, with residents of many villages facing hardships in securing safe drinking water during peak summer. Recently, Asifabad MLA Atram Sakku stepped in to release funds to provide drinking water to residents of villages in Lingapur, Sirpur, and …

Interior villages witnessing ‘water wars’ in erstwhile Adilabad district
2 years, 8 months ago

Interior villages witnessing ‘water wars’ in erstwhile Adilabad district

Deccan Chronicle  

DUBBAGUDA : It’s time for water wars in villages. Tekam Laxmi Bai of Molalgutta of Adilabad Rural mandal said the Mission Bhagiratha water is released once a week sometimes once in 15 days. She said some people of their neighbouring village Pothaguda had thrashed Namdev Pawar, operator of the Mission Bhagiratha tank, alleging that he was not releasing the water …

Minister gets it direct: Mission Bhagiratha runs dry
2 years, 8 months ago

Minister gets it direct: Mission Bhagiratha runs dry

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Sarpanches from several districts across the state aired woes over the drinking water crisis in villages this summer before the minister for panchayat raj and rural development Errabelli Dayakar on Friday. The minister was holding a video conference with sarpanches and officials of Mission Bhagiratha to take stock of the drinking water situation. The minister said the state government …

Drinking water scarcity in Adilabad district
2 years, 9 months ago

Drinking water scarcity in Adilabad district

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: Soaring temperatures have exposed the deficiency of Mission Bhagiratha in several areas of Adilabad district. Drinking water has gone scarce for both humans and cattle in interior areas of the district, with tanks and ponds drying up. Drinking water shortage has brought focus on Mission Bhagiratha, under which all villages were expected to get piped drinking water through laying …

Summer heat drying up drinking water sources in Adilabad district
2 years, 10 months ago

Summer heat drying up drinking water sources in Adilabad district

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: High temperatures prevailing in erstwhile Adilabad district are drying up drinking water sources, particularly in interior and hilly areas much before the onset of summer. State government is supplying potable drinking water under Mission Bhagiratha to several villages. Panchayatraj and rural water supply departments have not yet taken steps to address drinking water shortage by supplying drinking water in …

Safe drinking water from Mission Bhagiratha remains a pipedream
3 years, 3 months ago

Safe drinking water from Mission Bhagiratha remains a pipedream

Deccan Chronicle  

KOTHAGUDEM: The possibility of providing safe drinking water through Mission Bhagiratha is destined to take more time. The target under MB on extending protected water to all the people living in 1,513 habitations and towns like Paloncha, Kothagudem, Manuguru, Bhadrachalam and Yellandu in Bhadradri district will not be accomplished in the near future. There is no MB water supply in …

Dalit families in Kerala denied water by Muslims for supporting CAA
4 years, 11 months ago

Dalit families in Kerala denied water by Muslims for supporting CAA

Op India  

Fresh details have emerged from Muslim dominated Malappuram district of Kerala where almost 22 Hindu Dalit families in the Cherukunnu SC colony had been allegedly boycotted and denied drinking water by Muslim groups for supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act. It was reported yesterday that a Muslim family supplying water to the neighbourhood stopped the supply to these Hindu families from …

Union Budget 2019-20: No specific funds for Narendra Modi’s pet rural water supply scheme
5 years, 6 months ago

Union Budget 2019-20: No specific funds for Narendra Modi’s pet rural water supply scheme

The Hindu  

To fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of piped water supply to all rural households by 2024, the new Jal Jeevan Mission — which has no budget allocation of its own — will need to converge with other Central and State government schemes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. The budget for the National Rural Drinking Water Mission, a key component …

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