NEW DELHI: NEW DELHI: Pushing nations to accomplish their objective of supplying tap water links to most rural families prior to the federal goal of 2024, the Centre has begun devoting greater financial aid that turned out to function as four folds increase this fiscal year compared to prior financial below the flagship’Jal Jeevan Mission’ (JJM) strategy.
The nations that have been allocated four times greater central aid comprise Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Assam amongst many others.
Beneath the JJM, established in August 2019, the Centre has proposed to offer tap water links to most 19.20 crore rural families in the nation from 2024.
Although four states/UTs – Goa, Telangana, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and also Puducherry – have achieved 100% family link in their various rural locations, five star states/UTs — Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh — have opted to reevaluate their efforts and reach the goals by 2022two decades ahead of the federal goal.
Throughout the present ongoing procedure to evaluate the progress made by various states/UTs because the introduction of the plot in 2019, the’Jal Shakti’ (water sources ) ministry has announced that the feasibility of Rs 8,216 crore from 2021-22 for five minute States/UTs.
This figure is over four times the feasibility to such states/UTs at 2020-21.
Analysis of information, published up to now from the ministry, also reveals that Uttar Pradesh was allocated the maximum quantity of Rs 10,870 crore followed by Maharashtra (Rs 7,064 crore), West Bengal (roughly Rs 7,000 crore), Tamil Nadu (Rs 3,691 crore) and Andhra Pradesh (Rs 3,182 crore).
In the right time of the introduction of the JJM at 2019, just 3.23 crore (17 percent ) rural families in the nation needed a tap water source.
During the previous 22 months, added 4.32 crore families are supplied with piped connections, bringing the total policy to 7.56 crore (over 39 percent ) rural families throughout the nation.
At the moment, every family has a tap water source from 62 districts and over 93 million cities in India.
Besides JJM, the ministry has yet another flagship programme -“Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Grab the Rain” — that is centered on rainwater conservation.
The effort for 2021 was started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on World Water Day on March 22.
Trying to attract all Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs on board to create this effort a victory, Rattan Lal Kataria, ministry of state Jal Shakti,’d early this week written to all MPs looking for their active involvement and appealed for them to develop into the’new ambassadors with this effort in their various places.