Jal Jeevan Mission

Recently, the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir has planned to provide tap water connection to all rural households by December 2022 under the Jal Jeevan Mission.

Jal Jeevan Mission

• It is the government envisages renewed efforts to provide water supply to every household by 2024.
• The Jal Jeevan Mission is set to be based on various water conservation efforts like point recharge, desilting of minor irrigation tanks, use of greywater for agriculture and source sustainability.
• The aim of ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ (JJM) is to provide every rural household in the country a Functional Household Tap Connections for drinking water in adequate quantity of prescribed quality on a regular and long-term basis at affordable service delivery charges leading to improvement in their living standards.
• Under this mission, the creation of local infrastructure for source sustainability measures as mandatory elements, like rainwater harvesting, groundwater recharge and management of household wastewater for reuse, would be undertaken.

Funding pattern

• The fund sharing pattern between the Centre and states is 90:10 for Himalayan and North-Eastern States, 50:50 for other states, and 100% for Union Territories.

Following institutional arrangement has been proposed for the implementation of JJM.

• National Jal Jeevan Mission at the Central level;
• State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM) at State level;
• District Water and Sanitation Mission (DWSM) at the district level; and
• Gram Panchayat and/ or its sub-committees, i.e. Village Water Sanitation Committee (VWSC)/ Paani Samiti at village Level.

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