from the time when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee mentioned the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Jal Samvardhan Yojna (pmgjsy) in his Independence-day speech last year, the Union government appeared to have been waiting for an opportune moment to launch the scheme. With polls round the corner, the propitious instant seems near at hand. On September 16, Union rural development minister Kashiram Rana announced that the pmgjsy