Still Short of Target: Little drinking water for one-fifth of rural households

NRDWP has set a norm for providing 40 litres of drinking water to the rural households per day, only 74.1 per cent of them getting the requisite amount of water.

Even as stiff targets are being set on cleanliness and developing cities and infrastructure within them, households in rural areas are still deprived of clean drinking water.

Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ram Kripal Yadav, told Parliament, earlier this month that while the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) has set a norm for providing 40 litres of drinking water to the rural households per day, only 74.1 per cent of them getting the requisite amount of water.

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