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Piped Dream -Moumita Chaudhuri

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published Published on Nov 8, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 13, 2020

-The Telegraph

With the Assembly elections approaching, water has again become a promise. Is it indeed possible to ensure every household in the state gets clean piped water supply within the next four years?

Nothing can be more shameful if a government that has been in power for 18 years cannot even provide basics like clean drinking water.” So said Union home minister Amit Shah in 2018, when he was in Odisha in the run-up to the Assembly elections. A year later, after the Lok Sabha win, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised safe and adequate water to all households of rural India by 2024, courtesy the Jal Jeevan Mission. This, after he acknowledged on the occasion of India’s 71st Independence Day that half the country’s households did not have access to piped water.

In West Bengal, after some tarrying, the Mamata Banerjee government finally agreed to embrace the central scheme. Water is a state subject but the Union government influences its supply — there are three Union ministries in charge of water. For the success of the Jal Jeevan Mission too, the Centre and the states have to work in tandem.

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The Telegraph, 8 November, 2020, https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/piped-dream/cid/1796857


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