<p>The government’s ambitious drinking water project ‘Jaladhare’ will now cover urban areas. The project was originally conceptualised to provide piped water supply in every village and was projected as a permanent solution to the problem of drinking water in rural areas.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At a high-level meeting Kumaraswamy chaired at his home office Krishna, it was opined that the project should also cover urban habitations, excluding Bengaluru, which do not have assured drinking water supply.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accordingly, Kumaraswamy directed the departments of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) and Urban Development to rework the project’s blueprint and figure out how it can be implemented and managed, said a statement by the chief minister’s office. The meeting also discussed funding options for the project.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Jaladhare project, which Kumaraswamy announced in his July budget, is estimated to cost Rs 53,000 crore. Mooted by the RDPR department, the Jaladhare project was meant to be a scaled-up version of the multi-village drinking water supply scheme of Gadag.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The idea was to draw water from rivers or reservoirs and supply it after purification. Ministers Krishna Byre Gowda and D K Shivakumar, chief secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar and other senior officials were present.</p>
<p>The government’s ambitious drinking water project ‘Jaladhare’ will now cover urban areas. The project was originally conceptualised to provide piped water supply in every village and was projected as a permanent solution to the problem of drinking water in rural areas.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At a high-level meeting Kumaraswamy chaired at his home office Krishna, it was opined that the project should also cover urban habitations, excluding Bengaluru, which do not have assured drinking water supply.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Accordingly, Kumaraswamy directed the departments of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) and Urban Development to rework the project’s blueprint and figure out how it can be implemented and managed, said a statement by the chief minister’s office. The meeting also discussed funding options for the project.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Jaladhare project, which Kumaraswamy announced in his July budget, is estimated to cost Rs 53,000 crore. Mooted by the RDPR department, the Jaladhare project was meant to be a scaled-up version of the multi-village drinking water supply scheme of Gadag.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The idea was to draw water from rivers or reservoirs and supply it after purification. Ministers Krishna Byre Gowda and D K Shivakumar, chief secretary T M Vijay Bhaskar and other senior officials were present.</p>
