4,000 Crore Misused in Jal Jeevan Mission during YSRC govt, alleges Pawan
3 months, 1 week ago

4,000 Crore Misused in Jal Jeevan Mission during YSRC govt, alleges Pawan

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has accused the YS Jagan led previous government of misusing Rs. Speaking at a state-level workshop organized by the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department on the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission in Vijayawada, Pawan Kalyan said the state government, after coming to power, had requested the Centre to sanction Rs. Strengthening the Jal Jeevan Mission and addressing the water problems faced by many people is our top priority. The Jal Jeevan Mission was initiated with the goal of ensuring uninterrupted water supply for everyone,” Pawan Kalyan stated.

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₹8,400-crore Jal Jeevan Mission works to address drinking water woes in Nellore district
1 month, 4 weeks ago

₹8,400-crore Jal Jeevan Mission works to address drinking water woes in Nellore district

The Hindu  

With an aim to permanently resolve the drinking water problems in combined Nellore district over next three years, Endowments Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy announced the ‘Amrutha Dhara-II’ project under Jal Jeevan Mission programme at an estimated cost of ₹8,400 crore. Amrutha Dhara is a drinking water supply project with sustainable water sources in 32 mandals of Nellore district and 14 …

Jal Jeevan Mission extended till 2028 with enhanced Budget outlay: Sitharaman
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Jal Jeevan Mission extended till 2028 with enhanced Budget outlay: Sitharaman

The Hindu  

Jal Jeevan Mission, which aims to provide tap water connection to all rural households, has been extended till 2028 with an enhanced Budget outlay, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. Presenting her eighth consecutive budget, Ms. Sitharaman said under the Jal Jeevan Mission, 15 crore households, representing 80 per cent of India's rural population, have been provided access …

We will implement Jal Jeevan Mission effectively: Andhra DyCM Pawan Kalyan
4 months ago

We will implement Jal Jeevan Mission effectively: Andhra DyCM Pawan Kalyan

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA: Accusing the previous YSRC regime of ignoring the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission in Andhra Pradesh, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the present dispensation will implement it as per the aspirations of the Centre. During a meeting with Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday, Pawan Kalyan explained the State’s vision to …

Pawan Meets PM, Seeks More Funds for Drinking Water Scheme
4 months ago

Pawan Meets PM, Seeks More Funds for Drinking Water Scheme

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Deputy Chief Minister K Pawan Kalyan met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday – the third day of his visit to the national capital. “The present alliance government has prepared a comprehensive project report to complete the JJM works and ensure 24-hour drinking water supply to all rural households. Pawan Kalyan pleaded that the state forest …

Andhra Pradesh: Pawan Promises Clean Drinking Water to All
4 months, 1 week ago

Andhra Pradesh: Pawan Promises Clean Drinking Water to All

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has said access to clean drinking water is a fundamental right of every individual and Andhra Pradesh would ensure this to all in the near future. The initiative would eliminate the problem of water contamination as also resultant eruption of epidemics and kidney-related health issues among the population," the Deputy Chief Minister stated in …

Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari: All You Need To Know About The Initiative Launched By PM Narendra Modi
6 months, 1 week ago

Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari: All You Need To Know About The Initiative Launched By PM Narendra Modi

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari initiative in Surat on September 6, 2024. Five important points of Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari you must know: The initiative aims to build around 24,800 rainwater harvesting facilities across the state of Gujarat. National Water Mission: This initiative was initiated by the government with the aim of conserving water, reducing …

Waiting for water in Unnao: the outlier in U.P.’s Jal Jeevan Mission ‘success’ story
1 year ago

Waiting for water in Unnao: the outlier in U.P.’s Jal Jeevan Mission ‘success’ story

The Hindu  

“What water?” exclaims Naseema, about her experience with the Central government’s ₹3.6-trillion Jal Jeevan Mission that aims to provide free, piped water to every village home in India by 2024. Monu, a resident farmer, says he was unaware of the government’s Jal Jeevan Mission and blamed the high salinity in the groundwater, ironically on the “mission” that is working on …

Piped water now in 2/3 rural households in India: Government data
1 year, 7 months ago

Piped water now in 2/3 rural households in India: Government data

Hindustan Times  

India crossed a key milestone this week, according to government data — two of every three rural households in the country now have a piped water connection. The scheme aims to connect each of India’s 194.2 million rural households with tap water connections by the end of 2024. Read here: Free 20 litre water per day at 500 water ATMs: …

Four lakh diarrhoeal disease deaths can be averted if Jal Jeevan Mission meets target, says WHO report
1 year, 9 months ago

Four lakh diarrhoeal disease deaths can be averted if Jal Jeevan Mission meets target, says WHO report

Firstpost  

According to a new World Health Organisation study, nearly 4 lakh diarrhoeal disease fatalities could be avoided if the Jal Jeevan Mission accomplishes its goal of delivering clean water to all rural households. The government began the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, a state-wide campaign that aims to deliver clean and adequate drinking water to all rural households through individual …

Jal Jeevan Mission provides safe drinking water to over 12 crore rural households: govt
1 year, 10 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission provides safe drinking water to over 12 crore rural households: govt

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved a significant milestone by providing safe and clean drinking water through taps to over 12 crore rural households across the country, according to a statement by the Ministry of Jal Shakti. The mission was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15, 2019, with only 3.23 crore rural households having access …

Jal Jeevan Mission achieves 60% of its target, says govt
1 year, 11 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission achieves 60% of its target, says govt

Hindustan Times  

The Jal Jeevan Mission, one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship programmes to connect every rural household in the country with a tap-water connection, has reached 60% of its countrywide target, adding 23.4 million households in the fiscal year ended 2022-23, an official statement said. At the start of the Jal Jeevan Mission, a baseline survey showed that less than …

Jal Jeevan mission provides tap water to 11 crore rural households
2 years, 2 months ago

Jal Jeevan mission provides tap water to 11 crore rural households

The Hindu  

The Jal Shakti Ministry on Wednesday tweeted that the government had provided 11 crore rural households with a tap water connection. Narendra Modiji, the relentless pursuit of the goals set out for Jal Jeevan Mission by the ministry and the effort of our team on ground has made this mega milestone possible.” “Eleven crore homes are now assured of health …

Making every drop count: On the Jal Jeevan Mission
2 years, 5 months ago

Making every drop count: On the Jal Jeevan Mission

The Hindu  

One of the most significant commitments of the Narendra Modi government is to ensure piped water to every rural household by 2024. Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, led by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, 10.2 crore rural households, or about 53% of the eligible population, now have tap water access. This, the Government claims, is a 37-percentage point …

Jal Jeevan Mission | Seven crore rural families given piped water connection in three years: PM Modi
2 years, 7 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission | Seven crore rural families given piped water connection in three years: PM Modi

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 19 said his goverment has provided piped water connection to seven crore rural families in the last three years under the Jal Jeevan Mission, which helped the country achieve the milestone of 10 crore connections in villages so far. But in the last three years, since the announcement of this mission, our government has …

Jal Jeevan Mission: 50% rural households have access to tap water connections
2 years, 10 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission: 50% rural households have access to tap water connections

Firstpost  

‘Har Ghar Jal’ is a flagship programme of the Centre, implemented by Jal Jeevan Mission, under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, in partnership with states/ UTs to ensure tap water connection in every rural household by 2024 New Delhi: With the aim to provide every rural household with safe drinking water, the country has achieved the milestone of 50 per …

Additional six crore rural households got tap water connections since Jal Jeevan Mission launch, says Centre
3 years ago

Additional six crore rural households got tap water connections since Jal Jeevan Mission launch, says Centre

Firstpost  

New Delhi: An additional six crore rural households have got tap water connections since the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Patel said on Tuesday. “An additional six crore rural households have got tap water connections since the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission,” he said at an event organised on the occasion of …

Jal Jeevan Mission: ₹9,544 cr of drinking water schemes approved in Jharkhand
3 years, 2 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission: ₹9,544 cr of drinking water schemes approved in Jharkhand

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI: In Jharkhand, drinking water supply schemes totalling ₹9,544 crore have been approved under the Jal Jeevan Mission. “315 water supply schemes to benefit 7.97 lakh households in 4,424 villages of Jharkhand,” the Ministry of Jal Shakti said in a statement. “These schemes will provide tap water supply to about 8 lakh rural households in 4,424 villages of the …

Under Jal Jeevan Mission, 5 crore houses given water connections: Modi
3 years, 5 months ago

Under Jal Jeevan Mission, 5 crore houses given water connections: Modi

The Hindu  

Since the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, five crore households have got water connection and now tap water is reaching every household in about 1.25 lakh villages, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, asserting that today's India has done more work in just two years than what was done in seven decades. Speaking after interacting with …

Allahabad High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Probe Into UP Govt's Jal Jeevan Mission Scheme
3 years, 6 months ago

Allahabad High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking Probe Into UP Govt's Jal Jeevan Mission Scheme

Live Law  

The Allahabad High Court last week dismissed a Public Interest Litigation petition seeking a probe into the alleged financial embezzlement in the implementation of the Uttar Pradesh Government's Jal Jeevan Mission scheme.The Bench of Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I noted that such petitions cause loss of precious judicial time. The Allahabad High Court last week dismissed …

Key Target of Govt's Jal Jeevan Mission Missed, Deadline Shifted by a Year Due to Covid Pandemic
3 years, 7 months ago

Key Target of Govt's Jal Jeevan Mission Missed, Deadline Shifted by a Year Due to Covid Pandemic

News 18  

A key target of the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission has been missed due to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The National Jal Jeevan Mission envisions covering every household in the country with a tap drinking water connection by 2024. One was retrofitting or augmenting water supply to reach the left-out households in 4.19 lakh villages which had an …

How India’s water mission is overcoming the challenge in the Northeast
3 years, 10 months ago

How India’s water mission is overcoming the challenge in the Northeast

Hindustan Times  

Sering, a small uphill village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Kamle district, home to the ethnic Nyishi tribe, seems like a relic from a lost century. The piped water facilities for the village was created under the flagship Jal Jeevan Mission, a programme to provide drinking water to every rural household by 2024. “In hilly areas, the challenge is to create gravity-based …

Jal Jeevan mission goes digital in five states
3 years, 10 months ago

Jal Jeevan mission goes digital in five states

Hindustan Times  

Water is a global story, but a remote village in southern Rajasthan, ringed by the rocky Aravali mountain range, has its own — one that goes back generations. India has had several public programmes to bring clean water to its people, such as the National Drinking Water Mission launched in 1986, but the goal of providing drinking piped water to …

Inside India’s new plan to deliver water
3 years, 10 months ago

Inside India’s new plan to deliver water

Hindustan Times  

A few years ago, many scholars were drawn to a curious social phenomenon in Denganmal, a parched hamlet in Maharashtra. Nearly 820 million people in 12 major river basins of the country face “high to extreme” water stress. The emerging crisis Many Indian regions are hurtling towards Day-Zero conditions, when taps and tube wells will simply run dry, according to …

Over 3.77 crore rural households given tap water under Jal Jeevan Mission: Govt
4 years ago

Over 3.77 crore rural households given tap water under Jal Jeevan Mission: Govt

Hindustan Times  

More tap water connections were provided to rural households since the Jal Jeevan Mission was announced in August 2019 than what existed before, the Jal Shakti Ministry said on Tuesday. “At the time when the mission was announced, out of 18.93 crore rural households, only 3.23 crore had tap water connections,” the ministry said. The Jal Jeevan Mission, a flagship …

'Dismal Performance', Says Centre Over Bengal's Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission
4 years, 5 months ago

'Dismal Performance', Says Centre Over Bengal's Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission

News 18  

New Delhi: West Bengal has shown "dismal performance" in the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission by providing only 2.2 lakh tap water connections to rural households against a target of 55.58 lakh in 2020-21, the Centre said on Friday. The Jal Shakti Ministry recently held a mid-term review meeting on planning and implementation of JJM in West Bengal during …

Jal Jeevan Mission: CM Gehlot Urges Centre to Contribute Full Share of Funds for Projects in Desert Areas
4 years, 7 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission: CM Gehlot Urges Centre to Contribute Full Share of Funds for Projects in Desert Areas

News 18  

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has demanded that the Centre contribute its full share of funds for water drinking projects in desert areas and 90 per cent in other parts of the state under the Jal Jeevan Mission. He also asked Shekhawat to release funds in two half-yearly instalments under the Jal Jeevan Mission instead of four quarterly instalments so …

Jalayagnam: YSR’s Rs 90,000 crore let’s-all-loot scam
11 years, 6 months ago

Jalayagnam: YSR’s Rs 90,000 crore let’s-all-loot scam

Firstpost  

The Rs 90,000 crore YSR scheme to tap flood waters to serve the parched regions of Telangana and Rayalaseema is a dud. In 2004, YSR launched perhaps the most ambitious water project in the country with the idea of lifting the flood waters of the Krishna and Godavari rivers to quench the thirst of two crore residents and provide irrigation …

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