Over nine crore fifty lakh rural households provided with tap water connections in country: govt

The country has achieved the milestone of fifty per cent rural households having access to tap water connections under the Jal Jeevan Mission. The Ministry of Jal Shakti said that more than nine crore fifty lakh rural households now have access to tap water connections within their premises. It said that Goa, Telangana, Andman and Nicobar Islands, Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Puducherry and Haryana have already achieved hundred per cent household connections. The Ministry said that Punjab, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar have coverage of more than ninety per cent and are progressing fast towards attaining the status of ‘Har Ghar Jal’.