Question

Consider the following statements and find out which of the following statement is incorrect about the features of National Water Policy 2012?

• A. It ensures the access to a minimum quantity of potable water for essential health and hygiene to all citizens
• B. It increases the subsidy to agricultural electricity users
• C. Setting up of Water Regulatory Authority
• D. It removes the large disparity between stipulations for water supply in urban areas and in rural areas.

Answer 1

The correct option is B

It increases the subsidy to agricultural electricity users

The main emphasis of National Water Policy 2012 is to treat water as economic good which the ministry claims to promote its conservation and efficient use.

The other major features are

• To ensure access to a minimum quantity of potable water for essential health and hygiene to all
• citizens, available within easy reach of the household
• To curtail subsidy to agricultural electricity users
• Setting up of Water Regulatory Authority
• To keep aside a portion of the river flow to meet the ecological needs and to ensure that the low and high flow releases correspond in time closely to the natural flow regime.
• To give statutory powers to Water Users Associations to maintain the distribution system
• Project benefited families to bear part of the cost of resettlement & rehabilitation of project affected families
• To remove the large disparity between stipulations for water supply in urban areas and in rural areas
• To support a National Water Framework Law