Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma today informed that the government has already begun the process of providing potable water to the people of Meghalaya through the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
Sangma was reacting to a query on what steps the government was taking in the wake of the High Court of Meghalaya’s direction to the government to formulate a policy clearly laying down a roadmap for providing potable and arsenic-free water to citizens who do not have access to it.
“Through the Jal Jeevan Mission this process has already started. Of course, we started at a very low level in the sense that we have only one percent of the households who were connected with potable water,” the Chief Minister said.
Stating that providing potable water to every household is a massive task, Sangma, however, said that his government and the Public Health Engineering Department have moved very aggressively on this.
In a matter of months the proportion of connected households has gone up to 14 percent, he said.
