The central allocation for the mission has been increased to Rs 10,870.50 crore from Rs 2,571 crore last fiscal and Rs 1,206 crore in 2019-...

In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said of the 6,061 arsenic-affected habitati...

Jal Shakti ministry is pushing all states to immediately start works related to water supply and conservation in villages to help generate ...

Central government is taking steps to provide safe drinking water to about 28,000 arsenic and fluoride affected habitations over a span of ...

There are 66,663 areas where drinking water is affected due to the presence of arsenic and fluorides," Minister for Drinking Water and Sani...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government would start a Mission Antyodaya for poverty alleviation in the country.

Against a target of 5 lakh farm ponds under MGNREGA, 10 lakh ponds would be completed by March 2017. During 2017-18, another 5 lakh farm po...

As per the data shared by the minister, Rajasthan has maximum 20,895 such habitations followed by Assam, Jharkhand and Bihar.

Over 3.6 crore people living in more than 63,000 rural habitations are exposed to health hazards due to drinking water quality problems.

People living close to some of Delhi’s landfills are routinely exposed to extremely polluted air and those drinking groundwater from the ar...

Union Minister Birender Singh said drinking water supply was less than 40 litres per capita day in 3,14,529 rural habitations.

Intake of fluoride and arsenic contaminated drinking water leads to various clinical complications and at times even cause death, the Minis...

Birender Singh today trained his guns on his bete noir Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanding a probe into the cash-for-change of land use (CLU) s...

Villagers in North Karnataka are drinking water with high arsenic content, said a Comptroller and Auditor General report released on Thursd...

Rural Development Ministry, which steers a number of flagship programme like MNREGA and PMGSY, gets an allocation of Rs 80,194 crore for 20...

Progress on the six components, irrigation, roads, housing, drinking water supply, electrification and telephone connectivity, is said to b...

Having allocated an average of Rs 65,000 crore annually over the last three years since ’03-04 on rural development programmes, including 1...