Govt-Welfare oriented Govt schemes, their utility
Jal Jeevan Mission achieves 60% of its target
- Of India’s total of 190.4 million rural households, 116 million now have a functioning water tap
- It is a flagship programme to connect every rural household in the country with a tap-water connection, has reached 60% of its countrywide target, adding 23.4 million households in the fiscal year ended 2022-23.
- At the start of the mission, less than 17% or 32.3 million households had a tap connection.
- “The country crossed another milestone in the journey towards ‘Har Ghar Jal’ with over 11.66 crore (60%) rural households provided with tap water supply in their homes,”
- As on date, Gujarat, Telangana, Goa, Haryana, Punjab and the Union territories of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Daman Diu & Dadra Nagar Haveli and Puducherry have achieved 100% coverage.
- Under the mission, 2,078 water testing labs have been installed, of which 1,122 are accredited with National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories.
- The programme has created direct and indirect employment in rural areas.
About Jal Jeevan Mission:
- The Jal Jeevan Mission is one of the largest infrastructure-building programmes in the country, which involves installing source-to-household water tap connections.
- Launched in 2019, it envisages supply of 55 litres of water per person per day to every rural household through Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTC) by 2024.
- It comes under Jal Shakti Ministry.
Aim:
- The mission ensures functionality of existing water supply systems and water connections, water quality monitoring and testing as well as sustainable agriculture.
- It also ensures conjunctive use of conserved water, drinking water source augmentation, drinking water supply system, grey water treatment and its reuse.
