Kanchanpur, June 27: Water taps have been installed at the houses of poor, freed labourers and deprived people of Shuklaphanta municipality-10 in the district. The water taps were installed free of cost.
Chairperson of ward no 10, Lal Bahadur Air, said the taps were installed in coordination with the Drinking Water and Sanitation Committee. The local level arranged the budget for the essential facility.
According to him, water taps were installed at the houses of 15 households with a budget of Rs 100 thousand. A local Chaita Rana said, “I have been running family by working as a daily wage labourer. There was no money to set up tap. Now, we got safe drinking water at doorstep with the establishment of a tap.”
Locals shared that the compulsion to drink unsafe water from hand pumps has ended after the implementation of the drinking water project.
