New Delhi: The Jal Jeevan Mission, launched by the Modi government in August 2019 with the aim of providing potable water supply to all households in rural India by 2024, has already met 45.2 percent of its set target thanks to states like Goa, Telangana and Is. Haryana, which has ensured 100% tap water connection for all its rural households.
According to a status report shared by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation and the National Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) this week, India has provided potable tap water connections to around 8.69 crore rural households across the country. December 2021. This is 45.2 percent of its 2024 target of 18.95 crores.
For the current financial year (ending March 2022), the government had envisaged providing tap water connections to 10.23 crore rural households, which is 54 per cent of its total target.
But while the success of the mission in some states is helping to boost its overall achievement across the country, states such as Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Rajasthan – where rural households with potable tap water supply percentage is less than the national level. Average 45.2 percent – slowing down the normal pace of work.
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super achievers
According to the report, at the end of 2020, Goa became the first state to supply 100 percent potable tap water to all rural households. Telangana and Haryana, and the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands followed Goa’s example by reaching the 100 per cent target this year.
While only five out of 22 districts in Haryana were 100 per cent potable tap water supply At the beginning of the year, Telangana had already launched a similar scheme – mission bhagirath, in 2016 – even before the announcement of the National Water Life Mission in 2019, which helped it achieve its goals.
Other states that are close to achieving the 100 per cent target as per the data available on the JJM dashboard include Punjab (where at present about 92 per cent of rural households have tap water connections), Himachal Pradesh (90 per cent) and Gujarat. Bihar (88 percent each).
According to the status report, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya and the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are expected to reach the 100 per cent target by the end of next year. Bihar is envisaged to reach 100% target by the end of the current financial year.
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poor performers
Uttar Pradesh, which has managed to provide potable tap water to 13 per cent of its rural households, is the worst performer. Out of 2.64 crore rural households in the state, only 34 lakh households have potable tap water.
The pace of work in UP seems particularly slow compared to neighboring Bihar, which provided potable tap water connections to nearly four times the number of rural households (1.5 crore out of 1.72 crore households), according to JJM data. Is.
Chhattisgarh (with 15.42 per cent rural households having drinking water supply), West Bengal (with 16.52 per cent connections), Jharkhand (with 16.65 per cent connections) and Rajasthan (with 21.56 per cent connections) are among the poor performers. Follow UP. ,
Ten other states and union territories – Ladakh, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and Karnataka , 45.2 percent of rural households with potable water supply are below the national average.
However, UP, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Assam, Jharkhand and West Bengal are likely to achieve 100 per cent target by 2024, according to the Water Ministry and JJM report.
These states together have over 9.84 crore rural households – nearly half of the national total of 18.95 crore rural households – but only a third (2.94 crore) of them currently have potable tap water connections.
achieve the goal
Before the announcement of Jal Jeevan Mission by PM Modi on 15 August 2019, around 3.23 crore rural households in the country had drinking water supply. This means the government had to provide about 15.73 crore connections in 1,966 days (to achieve the 100 per cent target set for 2024) or 80,010 connections per day.
In the status report, a target has been set to provide potable tap water connections to 10.23 crore rural households of the country by the end of the financial year 2021-2022. To achieve this, states will have to provide 1.54 lakh connections on an average daily to 1.54 crore families in the next 101 days.
The good news is that out of 6 lakh villages in India, the project work has been completed in 1.28 lakh villages and work has started in about two lakh villages.
According to the status report of the ministry, work is yet to start in 2.76 lakh villages. Of these, about 1.22 lakh villages are expected to start work under the project by March 2022.
(Edited by Polomi Banerjee)
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