INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
VARANASI: Residents of Lahuria Dah village, nestled in scenic Mirzapur hills, received piped water supply for the first time, 76 years after
Independence on Tuesday evening
District magistrate Divya Mittal turned on a tap installed at the end of a maze of pipes laid by the state government.Lahuria Dah comes
under the limits of Devhar village panchayat
Till now, the hill village of 1,200 people was dependent on a nearby spring, which used to turn dry in the summers
Thereafter, paid tankers were the only means to fulfil the village's water needs
"We have been spending our entire annual budget on water," said village pradhan Kaushalendra Gupta."How tough was the task to bring the
water supply line to Lahuria Dah could be gauged by the fact that due to lack of proper planning, the work was stopped half-way about a
The village was also not included in Jal Jeevan Mission," said Mittal, jubilant over the success of the efforts made to saturate the village
with tap water supply.Happy to see water reaching their village through tap elderly locals like Harilal Dharkar and Jivanlal Yadav recalled,
water started reaching through tankers and the entire budget of the village was spent on it
of over Rs 4.87 crore could not yield results and water supply did not reach the village, I met the DM with a request to look into the
Hindu University and formed a joint team of Jal Jeevan Mission, UP Jal Nigam, Namami Gange officials and chief development officer to find
out a suitable technology for taking water supply lines to the village located on hard rocky surface
on Tuesday late afternoon to take part in religious rituals and a function to mark the beginning of tap water supply in the village
Lahuria Dah, 49 km from Mirzapur district headquarters at Madhya Pradesh border, houses a composite population of Kole, Dharkar, Yadav, Pal
and Kesharwani communities
