Nashik: The state government has sanctioned around Rs 600 crore to implement water supply schemes in as many as 574 villages of the district under the National Rural Drinking Water Scheme for 2018-19.
The National Rural Drinking Water Scheme was stayed by the Centre in 2015, instructing the concerned departments to implement the schemes only in villages eligible under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
As a result, the water supply schemes were implemented in a few villages of the district.
Meanwhile, state water supply and sanitation minister Babanrao Lonikar was constantly following up the issue with the Centre for lifting the stay on implementation of the water supply scheme.
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Given the open-defecation free status of the district, maximum number of villages has been included for implementing the National Rural Drinking Water Scheme.
“A total of Rs 603.47 crore has been made available to the district from the state’s water supply and sanitation department,” the official said.
Earlier, 51 water supply schemes were implemented for 102 villages of the district under the chief minister’s Rural Drinking Water Supply Scheme for Rs 44.22 crore.
“Over the past four years the effort has been to complete the incomplete schemes approved under the National Rural Drinking Water Scheme and Bharat Nirman Yojana,” the official said.
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