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13/05/22 08:11 AM IST

BHARAT TAP

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  • The Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs & Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Hardeep S Puri launched the BHARAT TAP initiative at the ‘Plumbex India’ exhibition.
  • This exhibition is aimed for products and services related to the plumbing, water and sanitation industry.  
  • Shri Puri also launched NARDECO MAHI’s ‘Nirmal Jal Prayas’ initiative which will work for saving of 500 crore litres of water per year.
Bharat Tap
  • This initiative will provide low-flow, sanitary-ware at scale, and thereby reduce water consumption at source considerably and said that he is confident that this initiative will be accepted quickly in the country and will lead to a renewed focus on water conservation efforts.
AMRUT 
  • To provide safe water and sewerage systems for 60% of India’s urban population..
  • India went from 38% toilet coverage to 100% toilet coverage in rural areas while also building 73.32 lakh household and community toilets in urban areas.
  • AMRUT has been critical in facilitating the journey of Swachhata, the mission has been instrumental in the creation of basic infrastructure – with the major allocation going towards water supply and sewerage/septage.
  • AMRUT has provided 127 lakh household water tap connections and 95 lakh sewer connections across urban India.
  • Sewerage projects under AMRUT are expected to lead to a development of approximately 6,000 MLD treatment capacity of STPs with around 2,360 MLD capacity already created and around 3,650 MLD of STPs under progress.
AMRUT 2.0
  • It was launched by PM Modi 1st October 2021. 
  • AMRUT 2.0 with an outlay of Rs. 2,77,000 crores, has been designed to realise the aspirations of the ‘New Urban India’ by making all our cities ‘Water Secure’.
  • AMRUT 2.0 will provide 100% coverage of water supply to all households in around 4,700 ULBs through 2.68 crore tap connections and 100% coverage of sewerage and septage in 500 cities through 2.64 crore sewer connections.
  • This will benefit more than 10.5 crore people in urban areas. 
Source-PIB 

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