JAL JEEVAN MISSION - GOVERNMENT SCHEME
News:
Jal Jeevan mission provides tap water to 11 crore rural households
What's in the news?
● The
Jal Shakti Ministry tweeted that the government had provided 11 crore rural households with a tap water
connection.
● Data
from the Ministry’s dashboard suggest that 56%
of the targeted 19.3 crore households had been covered.
Key takeaways:
● Tamil Nadu, Himachal
Pradesh and Puducherry reported more than 80%
of households with fully functional connections, while less than half the
households in Rajasthan, Kerala, Manipur, Tripura, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh,
Mizoram and Sikkim had such connections.
● Goa, Telangana and
Haryana have achieved 100% tap connectivity to
all households. Union Territories like Puducherry,
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu,
have also provided 100% of their households with tap water connections.
Jal Jeevan Mission:
● Jal
Jeevan Mission is envisioned to provide safe and adequate drinking water
through individual household tap
connections by 2024 to all households in rural India.
○ A fully functional tap
water connection is defined as a household getting at least 55 liters of per
capita per day of potable water all through the year.
● The
programme will also implement source
sustainability measures as mandatory elements, such as recharge and reuse
through grey water management, water conservation, rain water harvesting.
● The
Jal Jeevan Mission will be based on a community
approach to water and will include extensive Information, Education and
communication as a key component of the mission.
● Jal
Jeevan Mission looks to create a jan
andolan for water, thereby making it everyone’s priority.
Aim:
● It
aims to provide every rural household with functional household tap connections
(FHTCs) with adequate quantity and prescribed quality of water on a regular and
long-term basis.
Implementation:
● It
is being implemented by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under
the Jal Shakti Ministry.
Funding:
● Centrally Sponsored
Scheme - ₹3.60 lakh crores outlay.
○ Centre:States
- 50:50 (Other than North-eastern and Himalayan States and Union Territories
with legislatures).
○ Centre:States
- 90:10 (Only for North-eastern and Himalayan States and Union Territories with
legislatures).
○ 100%
Central funding for Union Territories.
Jan Andolan:
● Jal
Jeevan Mission is a ‘bottom up’ approach
where community plays a vital role from planning to implementation, management,
operation and maintenance.
● To
achieve this, the Village Water &
Sanitation Committee (VWSC)/ Pani Samiti are being constituted and
strengthened.
● Village
Action Plans are developed through community engagement.
● Implementation
Support Agencies (ISAs) are engaged to support village communities in programme
implementation and create awareness among people.
Significance:
● Empower
adolescent girls - reduce school
dropouts.
● Empower
household women - no longer to walk
miles.
● Improve
health and hygiene - reduce water
borne diseases.