The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has approved a Rs 100.47-crore project to improve supply of drinking water in Rewari district in Haryana. A spokesman of Haryana Public Health Engineering Department said that Nabard has also approved another project for augmentation of water supply in 15 schemes at an estimated cost of Rs 10.2 crore. He said that the department has augmented supply of safe drinking water in 607 villages and has constructed 121 new water works, 61 boosting stations and installed 521 tubewells in rural areas during the year 2011. He said that 2,111-km water supply distribution pipelines were also laid in rural areas.