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Send A recent development involving the provision of drinking water via taps in the temple town of Puri in Odisha has turned into a conversation starter on Indiaâs standards of water sufficiency.
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Chennai: It was earlier this week that the Naveen Patnaik-led Odisha government declared Puri as the first city in India to boast of city-wide safe drinking tap water. The state administration is now planning to roll out this facility in 16 more towns which include Cuttack, Rourkela, and Berhampur, and is expected to benefit 40 lakh people. All urban areas of the state are set to be provided with the âdrink from tapâ water facility by March 2022, making it the first state in India to do so.
By Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar
Twenty-first Century India is urbanizing at a massive scale. The country is expected to house half of its population in urban areas by the year 2040. Cities, especially the larger ones, have been placed at the centre of the economic growth strategies. However, the increasing pace of urbanisation in India has not been matched by adequate planning, governance and infrastructure development. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed the shortcomings of Indian cities in addressing urban densification and inadequate provision of urban basic services including drinking water and sanitation.
This pandemic has affected the urban poor more than anyone else. The engines of our economic growth have been derailed due to massive disruption in economic and related activities inflicted by this pandemic. Given the predominance of informal production and labour relations in the Indian cities, a cessation of all economic activity is bound to h
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Jal Jeevan Mission-Urban designed to cover all cities: Govt
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry Durga Shanker Mishra.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Feb 17 : The Centre s Jal Jeevan Mission-Urban (JJM-U) is designed to provide universal coverage of water supply to all households in all cities in the country, an official said on Wednesday. JJM-U will lead to competition among cities to become more water secure and will create more awareness and sensitivity towards water conservation, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra said.
While launching the pilot programme of the Pey Jal Survekshan, he said that based on the learnings from it, the programme will be extended to all the AMRUT cities.
Hitting the right notes with the health budget
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The Union Budget has laid a strong foundation to increase the resilience of the health sector in the post-COVID-19 era
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The Union Budget has laid a strong foundation to increase the resilience of the health sector in the post-COVID-19 era
Health care has taken centre stage due to an unfortunate novel coronavirus pandemic that has devastated lives and livelihoods across the globe. Although India has performed relatively better in its COVID-19 management, even compared to countries with highly developed health systems, the impact of the outbreak on society and the economy is undeniable. Against this backdrop, the Union Budget 2021–22 was an eagerly awaited one and the announcements for the health sector, in particular, have been widely discussed.