ENDING THE DRUDGERY
Mar 20, 2021
3 minutes
By RAJ CHENGAPPA
Photograph by BANDEEP SINGH
AT the headquarters of the Union Jal Shakti ministry in New Delhi, Bharat Lal, additional secretary and director, Jal Jeevan Mission, clicks on his computer to check on the progress of the government’s massive programme to ensure that every rural household has a functional tap connection for drinking water by 2024. The dashboard of the ministry website flashes that 127,000 households across the country have been provided with a
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