India, April 17 -- A total of 34 residential wards in Khoda will receive water supply in next six months under a project for which foundation stone was laid on Thursday during an event, officials said.

Notably, the Nagar Palika (municipal council) of Khoda, located in Ghaziabad near the border of Gautam Budh Nagar, has about 45,000 households that lack a tapped water supply.

Khoda residents depend on submersibles to get water and also purchased packaged water for daily consumption.

According to officials, the water supply project in Khoda includes laying of water pipelines, constructing six tubewells and a water reservoir and the project has been taken up by the Nagar Palika. "The foundation stone for phase-1 of the project was laid on...