Srinagar: Chief Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Dr Arun Kumar Mehta impressed upon the Housing and Urban Development Department (HU&DD) to work for providing round-the-clock quality water supply to all the urban areas in JK.
He made these remarks while speaking in a UT Level Steering Committee meeting of AMRUT 2.0.
The meeting was attended by the Principal Secretary, H&UDD; Commissioner Secretary RDD; Commissioners of JMC & SMC; Chief Engineers and other concerned officers.
Dr Mehta underscored the need for providing drinking water to all urban households meeting all quality standards and pressure. He asked them to provide a minimum of 135 litres per capita per day to all the households as mandated under GoI policy.
He asked them that the department should continuously work towards improving the quality of services provided to people. He told them to saturate their services in all the urban areas under AMRUT 2.0.
Dr Mehta also stressed augmenting the water sources and making them sustainable for the future. He asked them to take scientific measures in this direction including the planting of trees around them. He called for taking cost-effective measures to successfully complete the AMRUT 2.0 in the scheduled time.
The Chief Secretary also asked them to make Sewage/Septage plan for all urban areas for better management. He suggested seeing for recycling of water for industrial or non-domestic uses.
He also asked them to formulate a robust IEC plan for the awareness of the general public. He gave in-principle approval to the UT Water Action Plan and said that together with the Jal Jeevan Mission it would fulfill the goal of providing functional tap water connection to each household of JK.
It was given out in the meeting that under AMRUT 2.0, some 2.25 lakh tap connections would be provided and more than 4 lakh connections would be augmented.
Similarly around 310 MLD quantity of source water would be augmented. The department is also going to provide around73000sewage connections in urban areas and add/augment 54 Sewage treatment plants under AMRUT 2.0.
It is pertinent to mention here that the national mission of AMRUT has been envisaged to ensure that every household has access to a tap with an assured supply of water and a sewerage connection.
It also aims at reducing pollution by switching to public transport or constructing facilities for non-motorized transport like walking, cycling etc.
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