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Schools to get facilities for rainwater harvesting
Staff Reporter
BANGALORE:
Children studying in government schools will not lack clean drinking water any more. The Department of Rural Water Supply is launching the Suvarna Jala programme for rainwater harvesting in 23,683 schools and anganwadis in the State on October 2.
Minister of State for Rural Water Supply B. Sathyanarayana told presspersons here on Tuesday that the Rs. 67.76-crore programme will be inaugurated in all the taluks on Gandhi Jayanti. A sum of Rs. 50 crores will be spent in the first phase for providing water supply to houses and Rs. 17.76 crores in the second for government schools.
Mr. Sathyanarayana said rainwater harvesting facilities will be provided to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe families as also families living below the poverty line in 1,000 villages where the fluoride content in groundwater is high.
Twenty houses in each village will be provided with the facility free of cost, the Minister added.
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