Jal Jeevan Mission - An update

 Government of India's Jal Jeevan Mission, envisioned providing safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections by 2024 to all households in ALL rural India. It has various components -  recharge and reuse, water conservation, rain water harvesting etc.. Details of this programme can be seen here.

https://jaljeevanmission.gov.in/https://jaljeevanmission.gov.in/

I had posted about this earlier, (Jal Jeevan Mission and Goa's success),  now thought of looking at the present position. As on 15th August 2019, out of over 19.45 crores of rural households, only 3.24 crores - just 16.63% of rural households got water. In less than four years since then, 8.89 cr rural households have been provided water connections, taking the present statistics to 62.84% - a fourfold increase in such a short time. Thus it took over 70 years to reach  16% and another 4 years to do another 48% of rural households in India. Though behind schedule, yet what a fantastic performance.

 

The position is updated daily and can be seen here

https://ejalshakti.gov.in/jjmreport/JJMIndia.aspx

100% connection has been achieved by Goa (the first to do so), A&N Islands, Dadra &...., Haryana, Gujarat, Puducherry, Punjab, and Telengana. The laggards in decreasing order of achievement are Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and West Bengal.  Lakshadweep is at 0%

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