Days after the Union Government announced an award for Telangana’s Mission Bhagiratha scheme, which provides purified potable drinking water through taps to every household, the Union Jal Sakthi Ministry on Saturday rejected the claims made by Telangana ministers T Harish Rao and Errabelli Dayakar Rao that the state government’s flagship programme “Mission Bhagiratha” was the role model for the entire country and termed it “misleading”.
The statement read The Union Jal Sakthi Ministry on Saturday dismissed as misleading the claim made by Telangana ministers T Harish Rao and Errabelli Dayakar Rao that the state government’s flagship programme Mission Bhagiratha was the role model for the entire country. At a press conference on Friday, the ministers claimed that the announcement of the National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM) award to the Telangana government was an endorsement of the successful implementation of the Mission Bhagiratha scheme in the state. In a statement on Saturday, a senior official of the Union Jal Sakthi ministry said the claim made by the Telangana ministers was misleading and not based on the facts and information given by the statement.
The statement added that there were news reports based on the ministers’ statements making false claims, such as the Centre, through the NJJM, has reviewed the Mission Bhagiratha scheme and that each household is getting 100 litres per capita drinking water under the scheme.
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