Seethakka calls for strengthening local water sources in remote areas

Panchayat Raj, Rural Development and Rural Water Supply Minister Danasari Anasuya (Seethakka) has underscored the request to fortify section h2o sources successful distant and bureau areas, peculiarly successful villages that are yet to beryllium linked with Mission Bhagiratha.

She directed officials to instrumentality up the digging of unfastened wells wherever indispensable and to implicit the operation of cheque dams earlier the onset of the monsoon nether employment warrant works. Strengthening these resourceswould assistance guarantee semipermanent h2o availability, she added.

During a videoconference with the acrophobic officials connected Saturday, the Minister reminded citizens that drinking h2o issues tin beryllium reported done the toll- escaped helpline 1916, and instructed officials to enactment instantly connected each complaint. She said the aforesaid level of vigilance shown past summertime indispensable proceed this year, with Mission Bhagiratha engineers maintaining changeless tract supervision. Special absorption indispensable beryllium fixed to problem-prone villages, wood regions, tribal hamlets and tandas, she added.

Expressing restitution with the wide affirmative feedback from sarpanches, Ms. Seethakka said village-level inputs service arsenic a important usher for the government.

“The sarpanches’ feedback forms the existent roadmap for improving Mission Bhagiratha services. Our superior work is to guarantee uninterrupted drinking h2o proviso to each household,” she said.

The Engineer-in-Chief (ENC) bureau precocious completed a large-scale outreach effort, gathering feedback implicit the telephone from 12,457 sarpanches crossed 12,728 gram panchayats. Their inputs covered 16 cardinal aspects, including drinking h2o supply, h2o quality, chlorination and cleanliness of overhead tanks, pipeline leakages, functioning of pumps, household drainage connections and consciousness of the 1916 helpline.

Mission Bhagiratha teams person been asked to sojourn the villages, inspect the conditions first-hand and implicit each corrective works betwixt April 1 and 15, 2026, arsenic portion of the government’s 99-day nationalist medication advancement initiative.