Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government on Sunday approved Rs 47 crore package to ensure immediate availability of drinking water in the parched Bundelkhand region.
The UP Chief Minister also said that if needed, the state government would make available additional funds under this head, but there should not be any problem of drinking water for the people and the cattle in Bundelkhand region.
Adityanath said he was aware of the hardships faced by the people of the region. "Now, the state government will make all efforts to ensure the development of the region in a planned manner," the spokesperson said quoting the Chief Minister.
"The requirement in Bundelkhand is different and it needs to be addressed differently," he had said at a 'khat sabha' in Banda.
The CM also decided that the National Rural Livelihood Mission will be intensified and would be extended to all the blocks for alternative sources of income, construction of water tanks and building of dug wells and farm ponds on a priority basis under various projects and schemes for Bundelkhand.
The train was sent from Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district for the drought-hit Bundelkhand on the instruction of Railway Board, days after a similar arrangement was made for Latur in Maharashtra.
SP members on May 6, 2016 walked out of Rajya Sabha charging the Centre with playing petty politics by sending an empty water train to drought-hit Bundelkhand region.
The SP members alleged that while the Centre has not heeded to state governments requests for additional funds for tankers and dam to deal with drought in Bundelkhand, it sent the water train without speaking to the state government.
The UP government on May 5, 2016 had turned down the Centre's offer to send a water-train to the state's drought -hit Bundelkhand region, saying the water crisis was not as serious as in Maharashtra's Latur.
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