Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of rural drinking water supply projects in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts of Vindhyachal region of Uttar Pradesh on November 22 at 11:30 AM via video conferencing. The Prime Minister will also interact with Village Water & Sanitation Committee/ Paani Samiti Members during the event. The projects will provide household tap water connections in all rural households of 2,995 villages and will benefit about 42 lakh population of these districts. At the time of announcement of the mission in August 2019, out of 18.93 Crore rural households, only 3.23 Crore households (17%) had tap water connections, i.e. According to data provided by the government, 2.63 crore households have been given tap water connections and at present about 5.86 crore (30.67%) rural households are having tap water connections.

Source: dna November 20, 2020 10:52 UTC