Lucknow/New Delhi. On the birthday of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, the Yogi government gifted clean drinking water from tap to more than one lakh rural families. UP alone created history in the country on this day by giving tap connections to 107774 poor families. This is the second time in 20 days that UP has achieved this feat again. Many states like Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Rajasthan could not even cross the 10 thousand mark on October 2. Whereas on the day of Gandhi Jayanti, a total of 134968 tap connections were made in the country. Districts like Bulandshahr, Shahjahanpur, Mirzapur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur have contributed a lot in making Uttar Pradesh number one by providing tap connections to maximum households.
There was not a single connection in Bihar, Punjab-
Tamil Nadu 10064, Andhra Pradesh 3121, Maharashtra 2954, West Bengal 2159, Rajasthan 2027, Chhattisgarh 1517, Orissa 1439, Karnataka 1422, Madhya Pradesh 696, Jharkhand 627, Uttarakhand 514 on Gandhi Jayanti Started water supply by giving tap connection till now. Whereas in Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim there was not a single tap connection on the day of Gandhi Jayanti.
Bulandshahr on top in UP-
Talking about Uttar Pradesh, for the second time in 20 days, Bulandshahr topped the number one districts. Here on Gandhi Jayanti, 7506 rural families were given water from tap. In Shahjahanpur 6418, in Mirzapur 6054, Varanasi 5047, Gorakhpur 4012 also maximum number of families were provided pure drinking water by giving tap connections. After this, Bareilly 3681, Sitapur 2857, Deoria 2516, Meerut 2356, Hardoi 2158, Gonda 2488, Shravasti 2023 tap connections, taking UP at number one in giving more than one lakh tap connections across the country for the second time.
So far, pure drinking water has been supplied to 4843733 houses by giving tap connections to Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department in Uttar Pradesh. Pure drinking water is being supplied from tap to 257794 households in Odisha 4651759, Kerala 3057249, Rajasthan 2928134, Assam 2500622, Arunachal Pradesh 153009, Jharkhand 1439077, Uttarakhand 992206, Tripura 402413, Manipur 334864, Meghalaya.
More than 1 lakh connections were given on the birthday of the Prime Minister-
Let us inform that earlier on the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17, Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department had set a record in the country by giving 1 lakh 20 thousand 821 connections in UP. Uttar Pradesh had set a target of providing 75 thousand tap connections in the state on Gandhi Jayanti. Namami Gange and Rural Water Supply Department have completed the work of providing water from tap to 107774 poor families on the day of Gandhi Jayanti, completing the work on a war footing.
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