28-05-2021 | 14:45 PM
Jal Jeevan Mission
• The Government of India released funds to implement the Jal Jeevan Mission. The funds were released to fifteen states. This is the first installment of the four to be released in 2021-22.
• It complements the Jal Jeevan Mission (Rural) which envisages supply of 55 liters of water per person per day to every rural household through Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTC) by 2024.
About Jal Jeevan Mission:
• The Mission was announced in August 2019. The chief objective of the Mission is to provide piped water supply (Har Ghar Jal) to all rural households by 2024.
• It aims to create local infrastructure for rainwater harvesting, groundwater recharge and management of household wastewater for reuse in agriculture.
• 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 Jal Jeevan Mission will converge with other Central and State Government Schemes to achieve its objectives of sustainable water supply management across the country.
• In order to promote Public-private partnership, it has been mandated for cities having the millions plus population to take up PPP projects worth a minimum of 10% of their total project fund allocation.
