Karnataka has prepared a comprehensive plan to provide drinking water to 21,000 villages through surface water supply schemes in the next five years, state minister for minor irrigation Govind Karjol said today.
Karjol, also the district incharge minister, told reporters in Telagi, 40 km from here, in the last two years 6,000 villages benefitted from the scheme.
The remaining 15,000 villages would be able to avail of the benefits in three years, he said inaugurating a Rs 26 crore multi-village water supply scheme for 35 villages of Basavana Bagewadi taluk.
He said 210 villages in Bijapur district would get water under a scheme to be taken up under the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission project at a cost of Rs 125 crore by end of March next.
