The CEO of the Raigad Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra has blacklisted 14 contractors of the Jal Jeevan Mission over non-completion of water supply works
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The chief executive officer (CEO) of the Raigad Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra has blacklisted as many as 14 contractors of the Jal Jeevan Mission over non-completion of water supply works, officials said, the PTI reported on Thursday.
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The news agency reported, work orders for 26 schemes given to them have been cancelled as some of them were not completed and some not even started, a release issued by Zilla Parishad CEO Dr Bharat Bastewad on Wednesday said, adding these contractors have been blacklisted for one year.
Henceforth, if there is a delay in the works or the work is not done in proper way, the Raigad ZP CEO will take action in all such cases, the release said.
Bastewad held a meeting on Wednesday after a review of the works done under the scheme, including tap connections provided to houses.
The cancelled work orders include some of those in Panvel, Karjat, Mahad, Alibaug, Murud and Uran areas, the release said.
A new tender notice has been published by the Raigad Zilla Parishad.
Meanwhile, almost 4 lakh diarrhoeal disease deaths can be averted if ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ meets its target of providing clean water to all rural households, according to a new study by the World Health Organisation. The Centre launched the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019 to provide all houses in rural areas with safe and adequate drinking water through individual tap connections by next year, a news report published in June had suggested.
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation had asked the World Health Organisation (WHO) to conduct a study to assess potential health gains and associated cost savings due to increased access in safely-managed drinking water services in India. The study found that, on an estimate, if the Mission provided safely-managed drinking water to all of India, this would result in averting almost 4 lakh deaths caused by diarrhoeal disease, the news report suggested.
According to official figures, till now 62 per cent rural households have been provided with tap water connection.
The reported quoting Dr Rajiv Bahl, director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research, had said that these findings are plausible.
(with PTI inputs)
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