402 households in Roshi to get tapped drinking water

By Our Correspondent,Kavrepalanchok, Oct. 4: Additional 402 households in Roshi Rural Municipality of Kavrepalanchok district will be supplied drinking water through the 'one house, one tap' programme in the current fiscal year. 

In order to provide drinking water facilities to all the citizens of three wards within the Rural Municipality, an agreement was signed on Monday between the Rural Municipality and a non-governmental organisation-- Water for Health Nepal-- to run a drinking water and sanitation project.

According to the municipality, an agreement has been signed between Dinesh Lama, Chairperson of the Roshi and Maitreyi Sharma, head of Bagmati Province on behalf of the non-governmental organisation, Water for Health Nepal, to provide drinking water under 'one house, one tap’ programme in ward numbers 1, 10 and 12 of the rural municipality.

According to the Rural Municipality, a total of 2,962 people will benefit from the drinking water facilities from the six water supply projects in three wards, schools and health institutions. The estimated cost of the water supply project is Rs. 30 million.  

Ram Bahadur Tamang, the chief administrative officer of the Rural Municipality, informed that the municipality will bear 15 per cent of the cost to complete the water supply project. 

He said that so far, out of the total households in the Rural Municipality, 900 households have been provided with drinking water facilities under the 'one house, one tap' scheme. 

The people's representatives of Roshi Rural Municipality have taken the goal of providing drinking water to all the households within the Rural Municipality under 'one house, one tap' programme within their five-year tenure.