Dehradun ranked 16th in government released potable water index
Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday released the much-awaited investigation report of samples of drinking water taken from 20 states across the country, including Delhi. Ram Vilas said that the meeting was Convened and surveyed by Bureau of Indian Standards (BSI). He said that the biggest problem is two: drinking water and pollution. Our aim is not to blame any government and not to do politics. As long as we have a ministry, people should have a system of drinking clean water. Whatever state government wants help from us, it can take from us.
He said that drinking water would be examined in three phases. In the first phase the water of all the capitals will be examined. In the second phase, smart city water will be tested. In the third phase, drinking water will be tested in all districts. He said that PM Modi had said that we will provide clean water to every house by 2024. Our government is working in this direction. The Union Minister said that the quality report has revealed that the water in Delhi is bad. We are not blaming any government, but the Delhi government should understand that we are not doing politics on this issue, rather our aim is to provide clean water to the people.
Portable Water Ranking 2019
| Rank | City |
| 1 | Mumbai |
| 2 | Hyderabad |
| 3 | Bhubaneshwar |
| 4 | Ranchi |
| 5 | Raipur |
| 6 | Amravati |
| 7 | Shimla |
| 8 | Chandigarh |
| 9 | Trivandrum |
| 10 | Patna |
| 11 | Bhopal |
| 12 | Guwahati |
| 13 | Bangalore |
| 14 | Gandhi Nagar |
| 15 | Lucknow |
| 16 | Jaipur |
| 17 | Dehradun |
| 18 | Chennai |
| 19 | Kolkata |
| 20 | Delhi |
It is worth noting that after the BSI’s initial samples of drinking water failed in the BSI’s preliminary investigation in Delhi last month, Paswan said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi aimed to tap every house in the country and provide clean and pure water by 2024. “In view of this, the purity of drinking water is being investigated in the cities covered under the scheme of 100 smart cities, including the capital of all the states of the country,” he said.
Initial tests found that water at some places failed on 12, 13 and 14 standards out of 42 standards when samples of water taken from 11 places in Delhi were tested at BSI’s lab. At that time the Union Minister said that the final test report of these samples of water would come within a month.
