National Rural Drinking Water Programme

Since August 2019, Government of India, in partnership with States, is implementing JalJeevan Mission (JJM), after subsuming erstwhile National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), to make provision of tap water supply to every rural household and public institutions in villages like schools, anganwadicentres, ashramshalas (tribal residential schools), health and wellness centres, Gram Panchayat building, etc., by 2024.

State/ UT–wise details of tap water connections reported to have been provided at public places including that in Panchayats is annexed. A number of steps have been taken to plan and implement JJM with speed and scale, inter alia which includes joint discussion and finalization of saturation plan as well as annual action plan (AAP) of States/ UTs, regular review of implementation, workshops/ conferences/ webinars for capacity building and knowledge sharing, field visits by multi-disciplinary team to provide technical support, etc. A detailed Operational Guideline for the implementation of JJM; Margdarshika for Gram Panchayats& VWSCs to provide safe drinking water in rural households and Guidelines on a special campaign to provide piped water supply in schools, anganwadi centres and ashramshalas have been shared with States/ UTs, to facilitate planning and implementation of JalJeevan Mission. For online monitoring, JJM–Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) and JJM–Dashboard has been put in place. Provision has also been made for transparent online financial management through Public Financial Management System (PFMS).

The detailed information related to status as well as progress in making the provision of tap water supply to rural households and public institutions in villages is in public domain on JJM – dashboard, and available at:

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

This Information was given by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, ShriPrahlad Singh Patel in a written  reply in LokSabha today.

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Annex

State/ UT-wise status of tap water connections in public institutions

(as on 06.12.2021)

(Number in thousands)

Source: JJM – IMIS