Government has set a deadline of 2021 to provide clean drinking water to 28,000 habitations, heavily affected with arsenic and fluoride contaminated water.
Concerned that polluted water is linked with onset of cancer and even hypertension, diabetes and reproductive disorders, the ministry of drinking water and sanitation has launched the 'National Water Quality Sub-Mission' with an outlay of Rs 25,000 crore.
While West Bengal is worst hit by arsenic contamination, Rajasthan suffers from presence of fluoride in drinking water causing serious health hazards.
The ministry of drinking water and sanitation has also commissioned around 35 research and development projects for improvement of drinking water quality in rural areas.
Read more on this in a report by Sushmi Dey in Times of India.....
