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Potable piped water in Punjab’s rural household by March 2022: Captain Amarinder Singh

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Potable piped water in Punjab’s rural household by March 2022: Captain Amarinder Singh
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Punjab Water Quality Purification Program: “All persons living in 1634 water quality affected villages in the State will be provided clean drinking water within the next one year”, said the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. While presiding over a meeting of the State Water and Sanitation Mission over the weekend, Captain Amarinder Singh said that the State Government was committed to ensuring the supply of potable water to all such water quality affected villages in Punjab which are affected by fluoride, arsenic, and other heavy metals through both short-term and long-term mitigation measures.
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