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Choubey asks Joshi to stick to old ‘water formula’
PATNA — The Bihar government has requested the Centre to reconsider its new guideline on drinking water projects, which prescribes that the project cost be shared by the state and the Centre on a 50:50 basis.
The state has instead pleaded for the old funding formula in which the Centre used to fund 75% of the cost of such projects and the remaining 25% was contributed by the state concerned.
State public health and engineering department minister Ashwini Choubey raised this matter during his meeting with Union rural development minister C P Joshi in Delhi on Saturday. Choubey urged the Union minister to provide additional Central funds for setting up pipeline drinking water supply systems in hamlets as installing hand pumps in such hamlets is not sustainable.
Drawing Joshi’s attention towards deficient rainfall in Bihar during last monsoon, the state minister pressed for special Central assistance. Non-release of funds for nine districts of the state under the Total Sanitation Programme as well as the state’s old demand for upward revision of funds for construction of toilets at Anganbari centres and in individual households also came up for discussion during the meet.
Choubey complained about the alleged partisan approach of the Centre in selection of panchayats for Nirmal Gram Awards. Though Bihar sent as many as 126 applications, not a single panchayat was recommended for the award, he told Joshi.
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