Articles for Ghar Jal

Jal Jeevan Mission remains a pipe dream
1 year, 3 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission remains a pipe dream

The Hindu  

On Independence Day, 2019, this water-starved district in south-eastern Uttar Pradesh reported only 1,612 households with tap connections. Four years later, 1,29,209 households – or about 98% of all rural homes in Mahoba district – have water connections, according to the public dashboard of the Jal Jeevan Mission, the Centre’s ₹3.6 lakh crore scheme that aims to provide piped water …

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Har Ghar Jal initiative: liquidating the hand pump
1 year, 3 months ago

Har Ghar Jal initiative: liquidating the hand pump

The Hindu  

Sandhya Kumari, 18, squats amid an assortment of buckets, gazing at the tap boisterously filling up a pitcher. In the last six months, the Jal Shakti Ministry’s ₹3.6-trillion Har Ghar Jal initiative, which aims to take piped, potable water to every rural household in India under its flagship Jal Jeevan Mission, has provided an hour or two of running water …

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Presentation on UP’s Har Ghar Jal success story in Delhi today
1 year, 8 months ago

Presentation on UP’s Har Ghar Jal success story in Delhi today

Hindustan Times  

The Yogi government will be showcasing the success of the ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ in Uttar Pradesh, at Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on the Civil Services Day on Thursday. UP has become the third state in the country to provide tap connections to more than one crore rural households in a remarkably short span of time, a senior official in the state …

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Key to 2024 Polls, Har Ghar Jal Scheme Stepped Up in UP, 25% Households Now Have Potable Tap Water
1 year, 11 months ago

Key to 2024 Polls, Har Ghar Jal Scheme Stepped Up in UP, 25% Households Now Have Potable Tap Water

News 18  

After a sluggish start to Har Ghar Jal, Uttar Pradesh has now gained some momentum and connected nearly 25% of the households with potable tap water connections. A flagship scheme of the BJP-led government, Har Ghar Jal was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15, 2019 when he vowed to connect all rural households with tap water connections …

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Quality Check: Jal Shakti Ministry to Launch Survey to Monitor Water Standard Under Har Ghar Jal Scheme
2 years, 2 months ago

Quality Check: Jal Shakti Ministry to Launch Survey to Monitor Water Standard Under Har Ghar Jal Scheme

News 18  

With water quality a key concern, the government is now all set to launch a country-wide ground survey to check the implementation of Har Ghar Jal scheme in all states, and the quality of water being provided through the newly installed tap connections across villages. GRADING SYSTEM FOR VILLAGES With this, the ministry also plans to put into place a …

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Goa first state to become Har Ghar Jal certified, 10 cr rural households provided piped water: PM Modi
2 years, 4 months ago

Goa first state to become Har Ghar Jal certified, 10 cr rural households provided piped water: PM Modi

Firstpost  

‘Within just 3 years, 7 crore rural households have been connected with piped water facility under ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’. In 7 decades of independence, only 3 crore rural households in the country had piped water facilities,’ he added New Delhi: Ten crore rural households have been connected to the facility of clean water through pipes, PM Narendra Modi said while …

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to virtually address 'Har Ghar Jal Utsav' in Goa today
2 years, 4 months ago

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to virtually address 'Har Ghar Jal Utsav' in Goa today

Firstpost  

Ahead of his scheduled address, PM Modi appealed to the people who are passionate about water conservation and environment to join the programme Panaji: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually address the ‘Har Ghar Jal Utsav’ event in Panaji on Friday morning. Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant would be present for …

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Centre sets 30 September deadline to award pending works under Har Ghar Jal scheme
2 years, 5 months ago

Centre sets 30 September deadline to award pending works under Har Ghar Jal scheme

Firstpost  

The government is also launching a special campaign, Har Ghar Jal Utsav, from 25 July to ‘certify’ 1.54 lakh villages in the country that have reported 100 percent coverage under the scheme New Delhi: The Centre has fixed 30 September this year as the deadline to award all pending works under the Har Ghar Jal scheme and is also launching …

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Jal Jeevan Mission: 50% rural households have access to tap water connections
2 years, 6 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 …

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Reallocating water for India’s growth
3 years, 5 months ago

Reallocating water for India’s growth

Hindustan Times  

Water is a critical resource for social and economic growth. Given increased water demand and growing shortages, India will need to reallocate water away from water-intensive sectors to those with higher water productivity to support future economic growth. To understand and achieve a higher allocative efficiency of water use in the Indian economy, we used the stochastic frontier analysis model …

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How India’s water mission is overcoming the challenge in the Northeast
3 years, 6 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 …

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