Water testing lab gift to people, says minister

Mohali, April 1

To ensure 100 per cent piped potable water supply to residents, the Water and Sanitation Department of Punjab started the newly strengthened Multi-District Water Testing Laboratory at the Water Works Complex in Phase II here today.

Jaspreet Talwar, Principal Secretary, Water Supply and Sanitation, inaugurated the laboratory on the behalf of Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Razia Sultana.

Sultana said the laboratory was a gift to people under the ‘Har Ghar Pani, Har Ghar Safai’ mission. She said the initiative would help the state government in providing adequate facilities for testing and monitoring of drinking water being supplied to the rural population.

The Minister said in addition to the routine monitoring and surveillance of departmental rural water supply sources, the laboratory would also be open to public and other departments / institutions at nominal charges approved by the government.

Principal Secretary Jaspreet Talwar said the department would set up three multi-district laboratories at Moga, Hoshiarpur and Sangrur that would be commissioned by May. — TNS