AHMEDABAD: The state government has admitted that 17.6 lakh houses in the state do not have tapped water connections.
The state government tabled this data in the assembly during a reply to several questions asked by the Congress MLAs.
The Congress MLAs sought details under the Nal-se-Jal project of the state government. Congress leaders claimed that there are 211 villages in Anand, three in Porbandar, and five in Mehsana which are still not connected to the group water supply schemes of the state government.
The reply stated that the maximum 2.22 lakh houses did not have tapped water connections in Valsad while the number was 1.96 lakh in Dahod district. The government reply stated that there was no houses deprived of Nal-Se-jal project in Mahesana, Gandhinagar, Botad, Anand and Porbandar districts.
In Ahmedabad the number of houses which do not have tapped water was 24,187. Chief minister Vijay Rupani had in the assembly announced that all households in the state will get tap water connections under the Centre's Nal-se-Jal by the year 2022, which is ahead of the 2024 target set by prime minister Narendra Modi.
The CM had said the state government had allocated Rs 4,000 crore for the project.