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Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Government is planning to launch Mini plants for bottling water in its villages having a population of 1,500 and above on August 15.
Local women self-help groups will be involved in running the plants. Disclosing this chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy said that each bottling plant would cost about Rs 2 lakh and would supply water to a population of 1,500 people. Within a year of the launch, about 60 of the villages would be covered under the scheme.
The chief minister said, "What we are supplying now is only piped water, which is not exactly potable and safe. We can take it up as a challenge and supply safe drinking water by setting up these bottling plants."
To start with, the water scheme will be implemented in all 28,123 villages in the state which have a perennial water problem.
Reddy also inaugurated his government`s plans to introduce a cooperative farming model in the state to achieve better productivity and better returns for farmers. The programme would be modeled on collective farming in Israel, China and Vietnam.
Reddy said, "I want to make this a model programme for the entire country. The government would select one or two villages in each district to take up cooperative farming on a voluntary basis."
Under the community farming programme, about 1,000 acres of land will be brought together under a company equally owned and managed by the land owning farmers to take up precision and mechanised agriculture, horticulture, sericulture, poultry, goat or sheep rearing and allied activities.
(Posted on : 01/07/2009)
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