After being elected to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly and resigning from the Union Cabinet, former Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel was quick to move out of his ministerial bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi.
In a written reply, Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel said nine states/Union territories Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Telangana, A&N Islands, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu and Puducherry have reported that they had provided tap water connection to all rural households as on September 30.
As on November 29, out of 19.24 crore rural households in the country, around 13.69 crore households are reported to have tap water supply in their homes, which accounts for about 71 per cent. The government s flagship initiative aims at providing safe and adequate drinking water through individual tap connections to all households in rural India by 2024.
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