Selenium
High Levels of Selenium in Groundwater Reported by CGWB
The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has reported that out of 5,956 groundwater samples analyzed across 17 States/UTs, only four samples from Jhajjar district in Haryana and Rupnagar district in Punjab exceeded the permissible selenium limit of 10 ppb. The Government of India, through the Jal Jeevan Mission