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NEW DELHI-The government aims to accelerate the flagship programme to provide piped water connection to all village households with the complete roll out of its multi-village scheme by March 2022.
Under this scheme, dozens of villages have been clubbed to one drinking water supply project where the water is treated and purified near the source for supply to identified villages.
Officials said this increases the coverage fast, though the project preparation takes little more time as it needs integrated planning. “Some of such projects have started and are also operational, but work on all projects of multi-village schemes will start in the next three months,” said an official dealing with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
The JJM mission director Bharat Lal said the government’s target of 100% functional tap water connection to all rural households by December 2024 is on track. As of this month, 45% village households have got tap water connection, which was barely 17% when the scheme was launched in August 2019. He said the coverage will increase to 54% by March next year. He stressed the main focus of the scheme is to empower villages and communities to manage the entire water supply scheme in an efficient manner.
Lal said for transparency and accountability in implementation of the mission, all information has been put in the public domain and dashboard.
At the start of the mission in 2019, out of 19.2 crore rural households, only 3.23 crore had tap water supply and currently 8.67 crore rural households get tap water supply. Goa, Telangana, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Puducherry and Haryana have achieved 100% coverage.
Currently, every household in 83 districts and more than 1.28 lakh villages are receiving tap water supply, the government said.
Under this scheme, dozens of villages have been clubbed to one drinking water supply project where the water is treated and purified near the source for supply to identified villages.
Officials said this increases the coverage fast, though the project preparation takes little more time as it needs integrated planning. “Some of such projects have started and are also operational, but work on all projects of multi-village schemes will start in the next three months,” said an official dealing with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
The JJM mission director Bharat Lal said the government’s target of 100% functional tap water connection to all rural households by December 2024 is on track. As of this month, 45% village households have got tap water connection, which was barely 17% when the scheme was launched in August 2019. He said the coverage will increase to 54% by March next year. He stressed the main focus of the scheme is to empower villages and communities to manage the entire water supply scheme in an efficient manner.
Lal said for transparency and accountability in implementation of the mission, all information has been put in the public domain and dashboard.
At the start of the mission in 2019, out of 19.2 crore rural households, only 3.23 crore had tap water supply and currently 8.67 crore rural households get tap water supply. Goa, Telangana, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Puducherry and Haryana have achieved 100% coverage.
Currently, every household in 83 districts and more than 1.28 lakh villages are receiving tap water supply, the government said.
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