December 2021
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Present and Future of Har Ghar Nal se Jal
About one-sixth of India’s households had a clean water tap when the program, called Jal Jeevan Mission, began in 2019. Now almost half have one. Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) in every rural home, i.e. households provided with tap water connection since the launch of the Mission (2019) – 5,46,73,581 (28.46%). The Government of India…
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Focusing on Four “I’s” after Repealing Farm Laws
On the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, 19th November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the Government of India would repeal the farm laws given the continuous protest happening over it. These laws were in effect for only 221 days. A bill to cancel the three contentious farm laws that had the farmers up…