Lok Sabha Question No. 80 (STARRED), answered on 2021-12-02
Subject: Rashtriya Jal Jeevan Mission
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Ranjeeta Koli, Sunil Kumar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI

## DEPARTMENT OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *80

TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.12.2021

## RASHTRIYA JAL JEEVAN MISSION

## †*80. SHRIMATI RANJEETA KOLI: SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

- (a)   whether a team of Rashtriya Jal Jeevan Mission (RJJM) visited Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Jharkhand during this year;
- (b)  if so, the details of the findings of the team, State-wise;
- (c)   if not, the time by which such a visit is likely to take place;
- (d)   the details of the budget allocated to each of the above States under RJJM and the amount of budget spent so far;
- (e)   the details of the number of houses in urban and rural areas of each of these States where tap water is supplied including the targets fixed for supplying tap water in the rest of the houses;
- (f)   whether the work of providing water through tap in each house under RJJM is moving at a slow pace as compared to the targets fixed in the above States; and
- (g)   the efforts being made by the Government to achieve the said targets on time ?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF JAL SHAKTI (SHRI GAJENDRA SINGH SHEKHAWAT)

(a) to (g) A statement is laid on the table of the House.

## Statement referred in reply of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 80 to be answered on 02.12.2021

(a) to (c)   Water  supply  is  a  State  subject.  Government  of  India  supplements  the  efforts  of States by providing financial and technical assistance to make provision of drinking water to rural population. Since August 2019, Jal Jeevan Mission is being implemented in partnership with  States  to  make  provision  of  potable  tap  water  supply  to  every  rural  household  of  the country by 2024.

To  expedite  the  planning  and  implementation,  as  well  as  monitoring  and  handhold  States/ UTs including Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Jharkhand, regular reviews as well as field visits are undertaken by teams from the mission.A few of the common observations made across these States are as under:

- i.) These  States  need  to  expedite  finalization  of  Village  Action  Plans(VAPs)  and constitute Village Water & Sanitation Committees (VWSCs)/ Pani Samitis as a subcommittee of Gram Panchayats;
- ii.) engage  Implementation  Support  Agencies  (ISAs) for  all  villages  to  bring  awareness and mobilize local village communities; and
- iii.) train  5  women  in  every  village  for  water  quality  testing  through  Field  Test  Kits (FTKs) and report the same as a part of surveillance;

A few key observations made by the visiting teams and shared with these States are as under:

Maharashtra : In 2021-22, so far, the State has provided tap water connections to only 4.90 lakh rural households. Engagement of third-party inspection agencies and their tagging with the project sites were to be completed. Skilling of village people to prepare masons, fitters, plumbers, electricians, fitters, pump operators, etc.; training of 5 women in each village for use of FTKs for water quality surveillance need to be expedited. Moreover, lack of awareness was also observed in the local village communities about their role in the implementation of the mission and community mobilization needs to be expedited.

Rajasthan :  In  2021-22,  the  State  has  provided  tap  water  connections  to  only  2.06  lakh households.  The  State  is  yet  to  take  up  the  implementation  works  in  about  36  thousand villages, which needs to be expedited. It also needs to expedite the execution of multi-village water supply schemes. The State is yet to formulate operation &maintenance (O&M) policy and  to  explore  solar  based  schemes  to  minimize  the  expenditure  on  regular  operation  and maintenance of water supply schemes. Moreover, it was also observed that at some places, the tap  water  connections  were  provided  without  pedestal  support  and  platform.  O&M  related issues,  leakage  of pipeline,  unhygienic  conditions  due  to  improper  grey  water  management were also observed at certain locations. It  was  suggested  to  geo-tag  all  water  supply  assets including pipe-line for better asset management.

Jharkhand :  In  2021-22,  the  State  has  provided  tap  water  connections  to  only  2.20  lakh households.  The  State  needs  to  expedite  pace  of  implementation  especially  in  Aspirational districts.  It  was also observed that due to frequent power cuts, a few water treatment plants were not running to their full capacity. The State needs to immediately upgrade/ modernize the sub-division/ block level laboratories with adequate equipment, glassware, space, etc. as prescribed.  Moreover,  given  the  huge  Iron  contamination  across  the  State,  the  NABL accreditation  needs  to  be  expedited.  IEC  activities  such  as  signboards  for  dissemination  of information  about  the  schemes,  wall  paintings,  slogans,  etc.,  were  not  seen,  which  needs immediate attention.

(d)   The  details  of  fund  allocated,  fund  drawn  and  fund  utilized  by  these  States  under  Jal Jeevan Mission is annexed.

(e) & (f) All three States viz. Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Jharkhand have planned to make provision of tap water supply to all rural households by 2024. The details of rural households provided with tap water connection since announcement of the mission, are as under:

(Numbers in lakh)

| State       | Total rural HHs   |   No. of HHs with tap water connection as on 15.08.2019 |   No. of HHs provided tap water connection since launch of the mission |   No. of HHs with tap water connection as on 29.11.2021 |   Rural HHs yet to be provided with tap water connection |
|-------------|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| Rajasthan   | 1,01.32           |                                                   11.74 |                                                                   9.89 |                                                   21.62 |                                                    79.7  |
| Maharashtra | 1,42.36           |                                                   48.44 |                                                                  47.51 |                                                   95.95 |                                                    46.46 |
| Jharkhand   | 59.23             |                                                    3.45 |                                                                   6.15 |                                                    9.6  |                                                    49.63 |

HHs: Households

Further, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has informed that for the development of basic urban  infrastructure,  including  those  for  water  supply,  Atal  Mission  for  Rejuvenation  and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) was launched on 25 June, 2015 in 500 selected cities across the country. Under AMRUT, 114 lakh new tap water connections have been provided in 500 mission cities  in  convergence  with other  schemes. The  details of urban  water  supply  in  the States of Rajasthan,  Jharkhand and Maharashtra is as under:

(Numbers in lakh)

| State       |   No. of HHs in AMRUT cities |   HHs tap water connections in Base Year FY (2015-16) |   Tap connections planned for universal coverage |   Connections provided till date |
|-------------|------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| Rajasthan   |                        20.09 |                                                 13.42 |                                             6.67 |                             6.87 |
| Jharkhand   |                         5.73 |                                                  2.12 |                                             3.61 |                             2.4  |
| Maharashtra |                        86.42 |                                                 66.59 |                                            19.83 |                             8.2  |

(g)   A  number  of  steps  have  been  taken  to  plan  and  implement  JJM  to  make  provision  of potable tap water supply to rural households, schools, anganwadi centres, ashramshalas, etc. with speed, inter alia ,  which  includes joint  discussion  and  finalization  of  saturation  plan as well  as  annual  action  plan  (AAP)  of  States/  UTs  to  make  provision  of  tap  water  supply, regular  review  of  planning,  implementation  of  mission  works,  workshops/  conferences/ webinars for capacity building and knowledge sharing, field visits by multi-disciplinary team to provide technical support, etc.

A detailed  Operational  Guidelines  for  the  implementation  of  JJM;  Margdarshika  for  Gram Panchayats & VWSCs to provide safe drinking water in rural households and Guidelines on a special  campaign  to  provide  piped  water  supply  in  anganwadi  centres,  ashramshalas  and schools have been shared with States/ UTs, to facilitate planning and implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission.

For online monitoring, JJM-Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) and online JJM-Dashboard has been put in place& a mobile app has also been launched. Provision has also  been  made  for  transparent  online  financial  management  through  Public  Financial Management System (PFMS).

A Conference of Ministers in-charge of rural water supply of NE States was held at Guwahati in September, 2021. Similarly, a National workshop of Engineers-in-Chief/ Chief Engineers on  implementation  of  JJM  was  organized  on  24.09.2021.  Further,  on  2nd  October,  2021, Nation-wide Gram Sabhas were held on Jal Jeevan Mission and Prime Minister held Samvad.

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Annex referred in the Statement of reply to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 80 due for reply on 02.12.2021 Year-wise details of fund allocation, fund drawn and utilizationin Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Jharkhand under Jal Jeevan Mission

## in 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 (till 30.11.2021)

(Amount Rs. in Crore)

|             |         | Central share   | Central share   | Central share   | Central share   | Central share        | Expenditure under Stare Share   |
|-------------|---------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------------|---------------------------------|
|             | Year    | Opening Balance | Fund allocated  | Fund drawn      | Available fund  | Reported utilization | Expenditure under Stare Share   |
|             | 2019-20 | 313.67          | 1,301.71        | 1,301.71        | 1,615.38        | 620.31               | 698.54                          |
|             | 2020-21 | 995.07          | 2,522.03        | 630.51          | 1625.58         | 762.04               | 789.05                          |
|             | 2021-22 | 863.53          | 10,180.50       | ND              | 863.53          | 367.55               | 470.82                          |
| Maharashtra | 2019-20 | 248.12          | 847.97          | 345.28          | 593.40          | 308.04               | 428.14                          |
| Maharashtra | 2020-21 | 285.35          | 1,828.92        | 457.23          | 742.58          | 473.59               | 324.16                          |
| Maharashtra | 2021-22 | 268.99          | 7,064.41        | ND              | 268.99          | 110.29               | 166.35                          |
|             | 2019-20 | 75.79           | 267.69          | 291.19          | 366.98          | 114.58               | 119.71                          |
|             | 2020-21 | 268.39          | 572.24          | 143.06          | 411.45          | 286.62               | 177.73                          |
|             | 2021-22 | 137.93          | 2,479.88        | 512.22          | 650.15          | 80.97                | 155.71                          |

ND: Not Drawn        Source: JJM-IMIS