JAL JEEVAN MISSION IMPLEMENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH STATES

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Jal Jeevan Mission is being implemented in partnership with States, to enable every household in villages to have functional household tap connection by 2024.

  • This Mission aims at ensuring potable water supply in adequate quantity (@ the rate of 55 litres per person per day) and of prescribed quality to every rural household on regular and long-term basis.
  • On completion of 1st year of Jal Jeevan Mission, announced by the Prime Minister in his Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on 15th August, 2020; in the whole country, 2 Crore households have been provided tap water connection in this period.
  • More than 1 lakh families are given tap water connections daily.