by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group
1477 villages provided Water tankers in Maharashtra
New Delhi, July 15
The government informed the Rajya Sabha today that a total of 1684 water tankers are deployed for supply of drinking water to the 1477 villages / habitations in the Marathwada region as on July 5 this year.
The government said adequate numbers of tankers are deployed, as per norms and demand from local bodies. The State Government has issued comprehensive guidelines for tackling drinking water scarcity and district wise scarcity action plans have been prepared to take suitable measures to tackle the drinking waterscarcity.
In response to a question by a member, the Minister of state for Jal Shakti Ministry, Rattan Lal Kataria said, the measures include digging new borewells, repairs of existing hand pumps, requisition of private wells and bore wells, deepening of wells, sanction of new temporary piped water supply schemes, pipe water supply special repairs and water supply through tankers.
