Patna (Bihar): Janata Dal-United has completed five years in Bihar but has failed to keep its promise of providing tap water to every house under 'Nal Jal Yojna'. During the last assembly elections, the party had released its manifesto which talked about supplying water to all the cities of Bihar. But even after completing its tenure, the party has not fulfilled people's expectations.
In the 2015 assembly elections too, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar spoke about the tap water scheme under which every house in urban and rural areas had to be connected with tap water.
Under this scheme, the target was to provide tap water to 12,90,881 houses in the urban areas and to 38 districts of the state. The government claims that 7,15,206 houses have been covered. However, the government lags behind in completing its target and condition of these districts is poor. It was expected that the scheme would be completed by March 2020 but it did not happen.
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Talking about the villages, the target was to reach 1,77,87,411 houses, but it is being provided only to 87,36,039 houses. Araria is the lowest with just 3% while Khagarai tops the chart with 20.1%. Purnia has the tap water supply of 9.3%, Kishanganj 8.4% and Madhepura 5.8%.