National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved a Rs 100-crore project to improve supply of drinking water in Rewari district in Haryana. A spokesman of the Haryana Public Health Engineering Department said NABARD had also approved another project for augmentation of water supply in 15 schemes at an estimated cost of Rs 10.2 crore. He said the department had augmented supply of safe drinking water in 607 villages and had constructed 121 new waterworks, 61 boosting stations and installed 521 new tubewells in the rural areas this year. The department also handed over to the gram panchayats 2,639 tubewells under 1,429 habitations for the operation and maintenance during the year, he added. He said the Central Government also recommended a grant of Rs 100 crore for augmentation of drinking water supply for Mewat under 13th Finance Commission. Against this provision, a detailed project report of Rs 43 crore for water supply augmentation in 50 villages of tubewell segment in district Mewat had already been approved by the Central Government. — PTI