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Technology Mission on Drinking Water initiated in 1986 has been another Philip to
the cause. This program was rechristened as Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water
Mission in 1991. A survey was carried out between 1991-1993 in which 'habitation'
was considered the unit rather than 'revenue village'. According to this survey
the total no. of habitations of undivided UP was found to be 274,641. Status of
coverage as on March 1995 was 1,48,704 FC (Fully covered by water supply), 95,411
PC (partially covered by water supply) and 30,526 NC (without safe drinking water
source). This survey was again repeated during 2003-04 and the status of coverage
was found to be as below:
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