Raipur. April 17, 2025. “I cannot see… but when I hear the sound of water falling from the tap, it gives my mind great peace. It feels like a dream has come true.” These are the words in which Kosi Bai, a visually impaired woman from Kadeer village, 40 kilometers from the district headquarters Narayanpur, is expressing her feelings upon the arrival of tap water in her home through the Jal Jeevan Mission. Her husband, Mura Ram Nuruti, who is disabled in one leg, is extremely happy with the installation of the tap at home. He says emotionally – “I couldn’t even imagine that a day would come when we would get water from a tap in our own house. Now we don’t have to bear the hardship of fetching water from the spring. Seeing the water falling from the tap into the vessel in our own house makes my heart happy.”
This story of Kosi Bai and Mura Ram from the remote Kadeer village in the Bastar region tells how the Jal Jeevan Mission is changing people’s lives. The stream of water reaching every household courtyard has freed them from a major daily worry. Their story also tells that when schemes are effectively implemented on the ground, they change people’s lives, just like a dream… Today, every household in Kadeer village is receiving tap water. The people here are feeling that the stream of development has truly reached their doorstep.
Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, three solar water tanks have been constructed in Kadeer, and a 4700-meter-long pipeline has been laid. Every household in the village is now receiving a supply of pure drinking water. Like other families in the village, the Jal Jeevan Mission has brought a big change for Kosi Bai and Mura Ram as well. Due to the water problem in the village, the disabled Mura Ram had to carry water from the spring every day. Arranging water for a family of four was very painful for him. But now, the Jal Jeevan Mission has freed him from this suffering. Now, he gets enough water from the tap at home every day.