India's highest village in Spiti gets tap water

Shimla, July 3

Tashigang village in Spiti, the highest village in the country, got the domestic tap connection as Himachal achieved 93.05 per cent target of providing functional household connections under the Jal Jeevan Mission. Functional domestic tap connections have been provided to Tashigang, a small village at an altitude of 15,256 feet in the Spiti Valley, a spokesperson of the state government said here today. The government had achieved a 100 per cent target of providing tap connections in four districts, Una, Chamba, Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti, he added.

During the last two-and-a-half years, 8.44 lakh households have been given tap connections while during the last 72 years, only 7.63 lakh households were provided these. Under the mission, Rs 4,418.37 crore has been allocated to the state, including an incentive amount of Rs 1,028.43 crore.

The water supply has been provided to 411 habitations having 22,763 houses in Kinnaur and 364 habitations having 7,284 houses in Lahaul and Spiti. In Chamba, the target of 100 per cent coverage has been achieved by providing tap connections to all 1,21,752 households while in Una, the connections have been provided to all 1,15,949 houses.