The necessity of safe and potable water supply to the people in rural areas was recognized by BHORE Committee whose report was published in 1946. The report was based on census population of the year 1941 for the State of UP. According to this census, population in 107000 villages was about 493 lacs. Salient points of the recommendations of the committee are enumerated below:
Protected water supply should be provided within 35 years to the entire populations, 53 % of the population to be covered in first 20 years and the remaining in the next 15 years.
Protected water supply in the rural areas being almost unknown, the Committee recommended that the amenity of pure water supply should be extended to every inhabitant of the town or the village within a period of 35 years.
After independence sincere effort to provide safe & potable drinking water to rural population of the State was initiated with the launch of 1st Five Year Plan in the year 1951.It was planned that safe drinking water would be provided in 1000 villages at an estimated cost of Rs. 172.775 lacs. Central Government provided grant in aid to the tune of Rs. 86 lacs and a loan of Rs. 40 lacs for execution of this project. The project envisaged covering 750 villages by constructing Tank Type Stand Posts in adequate numbers near Tube Wells bored for Irrigation purposes in and around these villages. To cover the balance 250 villages, new Tube Wells were proposed to be bored. These works were completed by 31 March 1956.
In sixties UNICEF sponsored three projects of piped water supply for single/group of villages as PILOT PROJECTS. Location of these projects was selected in following villages in district Meerut, Barabanki and Gorakhpur for their being in the western, central and eastern part of the State.
District Meerut
District Barabanki
