Around 62% of rural households in India had fully functional tap water connections under the Jal Jeevan Mission.

Jal Jeevan Mission

• Jal Jeevan Mission, a central government initiative under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, aims to ensure access to piped water for every household in India.
• The mission’s goal is to provide all households in rural India with safe and adequate water through individual household tap connections by 2024.
• The Har Ghar Nal Se Jal program was announced by FM in the Budget 2019-20 speech.
• This programme forms a crucial part of the Jal Jeevan Mission.
• It is a central sector scheme with the Centre funding 50% of the cost with States and UTs, except for UT without a legislature, and 90% for NE and Himalayan states.

Note: A fully functional tap water connection is defined as a household getting at least 55 litres of per capita per day of potable water all through the year.

Components of the mission

The following key components are supported under JJM-

• Development of in-village piped water supply infrastructure to provide tap water connection to every rural household
• Bulk water transfer, treatment plants and distribution network to cater to every rural household
• Technological interventions for removal of contaminants where water quality is an issue
• Retrofitting of completed and ongoing schemes
• Greywater management

Progress of the scheme

• Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, and Puducherry reported more than 80% of households with fully functional connections.
• However, less than half the households in Rajasthan, Kerala, Manipur, Tripura, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim had such connection.
• Close to three-fourths of households received water all seven days a week and 8% just once a week.
• On average, households got water for three hours every day, and 80% reported that their daily requirements of water were being met by the tap connections.

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