00:00The biggest challenge of the 21st century is water security.
00:10In the 21st century, the same country will be able to move forward,
00:18the same region will be able to move forward,
00:21which will have sufficient water and proper water management.
00:32Only when there is water, the fields will be fertile.
00:40Only when there is water, industries will flourish.
00:47And I come from that Gujarat where most of the time,
00:54most of the time of the year, it used to be dry.
00:59But when I left Madhya Pradesh,
01:03the blessings of Ma Narmada changed the fate of Gujarat.
01:08I consider it my responsibility to free the dry areas of MPKP from the water crisis.
01:21That is why I made a promise to the sisters of Bundelkhand,
01:26to the farmers here,
01:30that I will work with complete honesty to reduce your poverty.
01:41With this in mind, in Bundelkhand,
01:47we had made a plan of 45,000 crore rupees related to water.
01:55We encouraged the BJP governments of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
02:05And today, under the Kain Betwa Link Project,
02:11the Daudhan Dam has also been demolished.
02:16This dam will create hundreds of kilometers of long canal.
02:23The water of the dam will reach up to 11 lakh hectares of land.
02:33Friends, the past decade will be remembered in the history of India
02:40as an epic decade of water security and water conservation.
02:50During the previous governments,
02:54the responsibilities related to water were divided among different departments.
03:01For this, we made a water power plant.
03:08For the first time,
03:10a national mission was launched to supply water to every house through a tap.
03:20After independence,
03:23in the last seven decades,
03:26only 3 crore rural families had water through a tap.
03:36In the past five years,
03:38we have supplied water to 12 crore new families through a tap.
03:50More than 3.5 lakh crore rupees has been spent on this project.
04:00There is another part of the water life mission,
04:05which is not discussed as much.
04:09That is the quality check of water.
04:152100 water quality labs have been set up all over the country to test drinking water.
04:2625 lakh women have been trained in the villages to test water.
04:37This has freed thousands of villages from the compulsion to drink poisonous water.
04:48You can imagine how important this has been to save children from diseases.
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