Har Ghar Jal! Centre provides tap water to over 4 cr rural households under Jal Jeevan Mission!

New Delhi, Mar 29: With an aim to provide tap water supply to every rural home by 2024, Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved a new milestone of providing over 4 crore rural households with tap water supply. 

 

 

Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 15th August 2019, 7.24 crore, more than 1/3rd of rural households are getting potable water through taps. Goa has become the first state in the country to provide 100 per cent tap water supply followed by Telangana and Andaman and the Nicobar Islands.

 

 

The untiring efforts of states and Union Territories have helped Jal Jeevan Mission provide assured tap water supply to every family living in 56 districts and over 86 thousand villages. They are now competing with each other and focusing on the target to ensure that every household in the country gets safe drinking water, so that no one is left out.

 

"The remote Kakisnur village of Velairpad Mandal, Andhra Pradesh is home to 200 people amidst thick forest, hilly area with no road connectivity and power supply. But, it just received 24x7 potable water supply under Government of India’s Jal Jeevan Mission programme being implemented in partnership with States/ UTs," the Ministry said.

 

There are many such stories from the field which show how Jal Jeevan Mission – Har Ghar Jal is changing lives. Following the appeal of PM Modi, Jal Jeevan Mission aims to make water everyone’s business, i.e. ‘Jan Andolan’. As Prime Minister launched ' Catch the rain' campaign on World water day i.e. 22 March, 2021 and appealed all to conserve every drop of water, efforts are made to involve all stakeholders.