Write about MISSION BHAGIRATHA in 400-500 words in english
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Write about MISSION BHAGIRATHA in 400-500 words in english
Write about MISSION BHAGIRATHA in 400-500 words in english
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Mission Bhagiratha is a project for safe drinking water for every village and city household in Telangana State, with a budget of ₹43,791 crores.[1] The project is a brain child of Telangana Chief Minister, K. Chandrashekar Rao, that aims is to provide piped water to 2.32 crore people in 20 lakh households in urban and 60 lakhs in rural areas of Telangana.[2] The ambitious project will supply clean drinking water to all households in the state through water sourced from River Godavari (53.68 TMC) and River Krishna (32.43TMC). The bulk supply is expected to be completed by May 2018 and intra-village, intra-locality works will be completed by December 2018.
Named after a great king, Bhagiratha, who brought the River Ganga, a humongous task, to Earth from the heavens.
The inspiration for the project was drawn as majority of the habitations relied on contaminated ground water. In Nalgonda district that is drought-prone, 973 villages with high fluoride content that leads to dreadful disease, fluorosis.
A similar project, Maneru Manchineella Pathakam, was conceived and completed by K. Chandrashekhar Rao, when he was the MLA for Siddipet Assembly Constituency in 1996-97, at a cost of ₹100 crore. The water was sourced from Lower Manair Dam and supplied to all households in 180 villages across Siddipet constituency. The Chief minister vowed on the floor of the assembly in 2016 that he will not seek votes in 2019, if the water project is not completed by 2018.
The project was launched by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi at Komatibanda village, Medak district in Gajwel constituency on August 6, 2016.[4] The other dignitaries were, the Chief Minister of Telangana, K Chandrashekar Rao.