Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much-talked-about sanitation programme, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA), is largely unimplemented in Jammu & Kashmir.
The state has also lagged in the implementation of the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, with Rs 310.15 crore unspent in 2014-2015, with more than 60 per cent of the target unmet.
In this story the northern district of Baramulla, people are forced to use unclean water for daily purposes, Mir Yaseen reports for KashmirUnheard.
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