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Madhya Pradesh Starts Amrit Mitra Water Leakage Repair Pilot
Madhya Pradesh has launched the country’s first AMRUT 2.0 pilot to train women from self-help groups to detect and repair leaks in urban water networks. The Amrit Mitra programme began in Indore…
The Story in Brief
Madhya Pradesh has launched the country’s first AMRUT 2.0 pilot to train women from self-help groups to detect and repair leaks in urban water networks. The Amrit Mitra programme began in Indore on July 29 and was launched in Bhopal on Wednesday, the Free Press Journal reports.
The first phase is training 30 women in Indore and 36 in Bhopal at government Industrial Training Institutes. Lessons cover plumbing, pipeline repairs, leak detection, safety, quality control and field records. The project aims to cut water losses and improve supply efficiency. Officials said similar programmes could be taken up elsewhere. AMRUT 2.0 has already involved self-help group women in water testing, park maintenance and tree planting across 482 projects in Madhya Pradesh.
The Indian Opinion
The easy story is that women’s employment alone will fix urban water losses, or that a training programme proves the system is already working. Neither claim is justified yet. The useful measure will be field performance: how many leaks these trainees repair, how quickly they respond and whether distribution losses fall in the participating areas. State officials should publish those figures before expanding the model nationwide.
Source: freepressjournal.in
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