PHE minister Marcuise N. Marak today chaired a review meeting on the status and progress of water supply schemes implemented by the department.
The meeting was attended by Commissioner and Secretary PHE cum mission direction, Jal Jeevan Mission, PHE chief engineer BM Lyngdem and other officials of the department.
This is the first meeting chaired by Marak, after the government formation. The meeting was the “understand the functions and mandate that we have to deliver to the people of the state,” Marak said in a tweet.
He said the meeting was also to assess the current status of various schemes that the department is working on.
The department is in charge to expedite the implementation of the JJM in the State and aims to provide Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTC) to all rural homes in the State by 2023. There are 5.90 lakh rural households in 6,415 villages in the State and out of these, balance 5.83 lakh households are planned to be provided tap connection.
The Ministry of Jal Shakti, through the JJM, has provided tap water connections to 2.82 lakh households in Meghalaya (as on January 13, 2023). According to the Ministry, with this, 44.45 per cent households have tap water supply in Meghalaya. It also said that the number has increased from just 4,550 households since the inception of the JJM programme.
