Soma Mookherjee
KOLKATA, 4 APRIL: The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal governmepnt has ranked first in the country in providing tap water connections to households in the financial year 2021-22.
The State has provided over 23.37 lakh connections in this fiscal year. Odisha and Bihar have ranked second and third by providing 17.47 and 17.39 lakh connections, respectively.

Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh lag far behind on the list, providing only around 9.51 and 6.57 lakh connections, respectively.
In the month of March alone, West Bengal has provided over 2.63 lakh tap water connections. Nadia topped among the districts in the parameter by providing 46,387 connections, followed by Murshidabad (39,237) and North 24-Parganas (27,527) connections, respectively in the previous fiscal.
When it comes to providing tap water connections in the month of March, Bengal bagged the second position with Andhra Pradesh topping the list.
West Bengal government’s Public Health Engineering department, the nodal agency for the project of providing tap water connection, has taken up 2,941 new and augmentation piped water supply schemes at a cost of Rs 8,399 crore in the previous fiscal. Around 56,000 schools and 38,000 Anganwadi Centres have also been provided running water facilities in Bengal.
Under the Jal Swapna Project, the department hopes to ensure tap water connection reaches 1.77 crore families by the end of 2024. With the project kicking off from July 2020, nearly 38 lakh families have already been provided with tap water connections.
“We are following the directions of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and executing the work to ensure that people get the benefits of the project at the earliest,” State PHE minister Pulak Roy stated.
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