Current status of the Jal Jeevan mission Objective
- Jal Jeevan (Gramin) Mission – Its goal is to provide safe and adequate water through individual household tap connections to every household in rural India by 2024.
- Jal Jeevan (Urban) Mission – This is a companion to the Jal Jeevan (Gramin) Mission and is designed to provide universal coverage of water supply through functional taps in all 4,378 statutory cities in India.
- It also aims to provide separation/wastewater management coverage in 500 AMRUT cities as another area of focus.
- Demonstration: Goa, Telangana, and Haryana have achieved 100% connectivity in all households.
- Union Territories such as Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu have also provided piped water connections to 100% of their homes.
- Union Ministry of Water Resources Report: According to the survey conducted by the Union Ministry of Water Resources to assess the performance of the government’s ambitious Jal Jeevan Mission:
- Around 62% of rural households in India have a fully functional tap water connection (with a capacity of at least 55 liters of water per person per day) within their premises.
- However, the report also mentions a related problem of chlorine contamination.
- Although 93% of the water samples were reported to be free of bacterial contamination, residual chlorine in most Anganwadi centers and schools exceeded allowable limits and indicated inappropriate local intake.
Jal Jeevan Mission (Rural and Urban)
Jal Jeevan (Rural and Urban) Mission is an important Indian government scheme. In every government exam like SSC CGL, RAILWAY, BANKING, and some other related exams questions were asked about the government schemes. So further we are describing all aspects and dimensions of the Jal Jeevan (Rural and Urban) Mission. This article will help in the upcoming government exams.
- Water is a natural and economic resource, unique and irreplaceable. It is unevenly distributed on our planet, which underlines its competitive and conflictive nature. India offers a fitting example of the impact of the unequal distribution of this scarce resource on a growing population.
- India accounts for 18% of the total world population. But India has only 4% of the world’s freshwater resources to meet basic water requirements for this population, showing the challenge of water distribution and access.
- The Government of India through its Jal Jeevan (Rural and Urban) Mission has recognized the ‘Right to Water’ and aims to provide an equitable distribution of fully functional tap water connections.
- But the mismanagement of water bodies, pollution, and the excessive use of groundwater highlight the main challenges related to water management, as well as the abuse of the ‘right to water and the need for urgent attention towards sustainable water management.
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