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NEW DELHI: Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, has announced that the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will be ranking state capitals and the 100 smart cities for the quality of tap water. Water samples will be collected over the coming three months for the cities and six months at district level and their quality would be assessed.
The ministry has written to state governments to make BIS standard mandatory on drinking water.
“The BIS has begun the process of collecting tap water samples from the state capitals and smart cities,” Paswan said at an event organised to commemorate the World Standards Day. After testing the samples, the BIS would rank state capitals and 100 smart cities for quality water in the next three months, he said. The initiative would be taken to district level in next six months.
It has been asked to test tap water in other parts of the country after a probe showed samples from 11 areas in Delhi did not comply with BIS standard.
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