Lucknow, March 26 -- The Uttar Pradesh rural water supply department has taken action against 26 engineers for negligence and delays in implementing the Jal Jeevan Mission.

Anurag Srivastava, additional chief secretary of the Namami Gange and rural water resources department, announced the suspension of 12 engineers, including those of executive, assistant and junior engineer ranks. He also said departmental inquiries have been ordered against four executive engineers, show cause notices were issued to three executive engineers for slow project progress, and seven engineers have been transferred based on complaints against them.

The rural water supply department is working in mission mode, following Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's dire...