Bhubaneswar: This center has allocated Rs 3,323 Crore to Odisha under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) for the financial year of 2021-22 at this time.
The central scheme aims to provide clean tap water to every household of rustic in March 2024.
Grants to the country during the current financial year are a four-fold increase because Odisha has received Rs 812 Crore in the previous 2020-21 financial year, the official statement said.
While approving the state allocation, Union Minister Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat ensured full assistance to the state to make the supply of tap water in every rural house on March 2024.
Official sources said in ensuring tap water connections to rural households since launching JJM on August 15, 2019 throughout the country.
In Odisha, only 3.10 household lakh total 85.66 lakh household rustic has a tap water connection, accounting to 3.63%.
In the past three years, more than 22.84 lakh households in the country are equipped with tap water connections under JJM while a total of 30.3% of rural households with tab connections.
While Pancayati Raj and the Department of Water Drinking Agency have become an executive body for JJM in the state, it has targeted to provide a tap water connection to 21.31 Lakh rural households during the current financial year.
Likewise, additional 22.53 lakh tap water connections were planned in 2022-23 and 18.87 lakh the only tap water connection in 2023-24.
According to the official source, the Minister of Uni Jal Shakti in a letter to the Minister of Chief Naveen Patnaik, has urged the work to provide a tap water connection to begin in all villages so that the state can reach the target of all rural households in March 2024.
Because the scheme is being carried out with a pattern The distribution of 50:50 funds between the Center and the State Government, the total funds available to ensure that water twitched to all rustic households for the financial year 2021-22 will be more than Rs 6,500 Crore (with state matching shares).
Apart from the allocation below JJM, the 15th Finance Commission has also given 1,002 crore rs sanctions to Pancayati Raj State institution to manage water supply in villages and to ensure improved sanitation in villages.
In addition to the connection of tap water to rural households, the center has also emphasized to provide tap water to children in schools and the centers of wisdom.
In Odisha, as many as 25,820 schools (47%) and 11,913 Angganwadi Center (22%) have provided a tap water connection.