Drinking Water Supply

Providing safe drinking water to our people has always remains priority sector in this District. Though piped water supply is the most popular source of drinking water in the District only about 45% – 47% of the population of this district have access to piped water supply. The major source of drinking water in the District are presently the hand bore tube well provided under schemes like the RWS and the ARWSP. There are at present 87 nos. of Piped water supply schemes maintained and operated by the PHE department. These covers as many as 349 villages of the district. In addition to this as many as 8 nos. of such PHE operated piped water supply schemes has now been handed over to local Panchayats for operation. The Zilla Parishad has sanctioned 15 nos. of community water supply schemes under Swajal Dhara Prokolpa. These schemes are community owned maintained and operated piped water supply schemes.