#inter-state workers

Returning labourers may be deployed for Jal Jeevan Mission work, Jal Shakti Ministry tells States

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The flagship programme of the Narendra Modi government in its second avatar, the Jal Jeevan Mission, or providing piped drinking water to all rural households by 2024, is also being pushed as a way to ameliorate some of the effects of the mass migration of inter-State workers back to their home States in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Jal Shakti Ministry, the nodal ministry for…