State hoping to ramp up rural water connections
The Hindu
Jal Jeevan Mission has woefully fallen short of its annual target
The State Government is scrambling to step up the pace of work on the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), a Centrally assisted rural household water connection scheme which has fallen woefully short of the annual target in the State - in the coming months with the Central Government exerting pressure on it.
The Centre had warned Kerala in early January of the need to expedite the work, noting that at the current pace the State would need to provide tap connections to more than 25,000 households every day if it hoped to meet the connection target for the 2021-22 fiscal, which ends on March 31.
Everyone talks about the Airport Metro, but one look at the pillars and completion seems nowhere in sight. Meanwhile, a faster, cheaper, roomier alternative called the Suburban Rail Airport Corridor is finally getting off the drawing board. This dedicated corridor with its specialised coaches will link the airport to vast stretches of Bengaluru, where the metro connection is still years away.