According to the Ministry of Jal Shakti, 278 lakh Households (HHs) have been provided tap water connections under Jal Jeevan Mission.
- At present 6.01 Crore rural households in the country are getting potable water in their households through taps.
- 18 districts across the country have provided tap connections to all households and States are competing with each other to ensure tap water supply to every home.
Jal Jeevan Mission
- Jal Jeevan Mission was announced on 15 August, 2019.
- The Ministry of Jal Shakti has been implementing Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), in partnership with States with an aim to provide potable water in adequate quantity of prescribed quality on regular and long-term basis through tap connections to every rural home in the country by 2024.
- The objective of the Mission is universal coverage and emphasis is on the principle of ‘equity and inclusiveness’ i.e. every family in the village gets tap water connection in their household and ‘none is left behind’.
- Accordingly, States are giving priority to SC/ ST majority populated villages, aspirational districts, villages in drought prone and desert areas and quality-affected habitations.
- Being a decentralized programme, Village Water & Sanitation Committees (VWSCs)/ Paani Samiti as sub-committee of Gram Panchayat, with minimum 50% women members, are being formed at village level which is responsible for preparing the 5-year Village Action Plan (VAP) considering the water-sources development, supply, grey-water management and operation and maintenance.
- JJM also aims at the capacity building of members of Gram Panchayat and/ or its sub-committeeto develop responsive’ and ‘responsible’ leadership at village level, who can manage, plan, operate and maintain in-village water supply infrastructure.
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