BSS, Rajshahi :
In the wake of implementation of a project, many villagers including the high barind tract are getting safe drinking water for the last couple of years.
The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has been supplying arsenic-free drinking water among people in some parts of the dried tract for more than 15 years.
So far, the BMDA has installed more than 1000 water supply installations and 50 other necessary infrastructures since 1995 for the purpose in some parts of the barind tract comprising 25 upazilas of Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainawabganj districts.
In the ongoing third phase of the four-year project titled “Drinking Piped Water Supply from Irrigation Deep Tubewells”, the BMDA has a target to construct 550 more installations and 50 pipeline extension to supply the safe drinking water through pipeline by June 2017 with an estimated cost of around Taka 110.45 crore.
In the wake of implementation of a project, many villagers including the high barind tract are getting safe drinking water for the last couple of years.
The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has been supplying arsenic-free drinking water among people in some parts of the dried tract for more than 15 years.
So far, the BMDA has installed more than 1000 water supply installations and 50 other necessary infrastructures since 1995 for the purpose in some parts of the barind tract comprising 25 upazilas of Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainawabganj districts.
In the ongoing third phase of the four-year project titled “Drinking Piped Water Supply from Irrigation Deep Tubewells”, the BMDA has a target to construct 550 more installations and 50 pipeline extension to supply the safe drinking water through pipeline by June 2017 with an estimated cost of around Taka 110.45 crore.
