Biratnagar metropolis is materializing ‘one house, one tap’ campaign to make drinking water available to the municipal dwellers.

The metropolis in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Nepal Drinking Water Corporation has accomplished project related study and research in various phases.

With this, the metropolis is expected to materialize the denizens’ dream of ‘one home-one tap’ within some years.

Biratnagar mayor Bhim Parajuli took the leadership to expedite the initiative from the very beginning. In connection with the plan, the first-phase detailed project report and progress reports prepared by JICA were presented on Wednesday.

The metropolis and JICA’s consultant Yachiyo Engineering Corporation Limited jointly accomplished the task.

A four-member delegation headed by representative of JICA head office Yosiaki Yokota and Hirosi Kuwota has initiated its preparatory works in Biratnagar.

Noting that he has a dream to provide metropolitan denizens pure drinking as part of his campaign ‘one house, one tap’, mayor Parajuli said his team has concentrated its all-out efforts with confidence to that end.

The drinking water pipes which were installed more than 60-years are in dire straits. The denizens have been compelled to drink sub-standard water in some places due to unrepaired condition of the pipes.

It may be noted that 13 locals had lost their life in Biratnagar because of jaundice that was believably broken out with the consumption of impure water.

Biratnagar’s Chief Administrative Officer Ekdev Adhikari called for all sides to expedite the tasks to materialize the plan of distributing pure drinking water to the households.