Lok Sabha Question No. 3015 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-16
Subject: Household without Water Supply
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Rajendra Agrawal, Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta, P.P. Chaudhary, Chandra Prakash Joshi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI DEPARTMENT OF DRINKING WATER & SANITATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3015

TO BE ANSWERED ON 16/12/2021

## HOUSEHOLD WITHOUT WATER SUPPLY

## 3015.  SHRI RAJENDRA AGRAWAL: SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA: SHRI P.P. CHAUDHARY: SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

- (a)   the details of works/projects undertaken under the Jal Jeevan Mission in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan;
- (b)   whether the Government has taken up any special initiatives for States with large percentage of  households without water supply and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c)   whether the Government is on target to provide tap water connections to all households by 2024?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI (SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL)

(a)to (c) Drinking  water  being  a  State  subject,  it  is  States,  including  Uttar  Pradesh  and Rajasthan, who  plan, design, approve and implement drinking water supply schemes. Government of India supplements the efforts of the States by providing technical and financial assistance. As such details of individual projects/ schemes for rural water supply projects are not maintained at the Government of India level.

To make provision of potable tap water supply to every rural household of the country by 2024, since August, 2019, Government of India in partnership with States is implementing Jal Jeevan Mission  (JJM).  At  the  time  of  announcement  of  Jal  Jeevan  Mission,  out  of  18.93  Crore  rural households, 3.23  Crore  (17%)  households  were  reported  to  have  tap  water  connections.  Since then, in last 27 months, tap water connection has been provided to additional 5.42 Crore (28.2%) rural households. Thus, as of date, out of 19.22 Crore rural households in the country, 8.66 Crore (45%) households are reported to have provision of tap water supply in their homes.

A  number of  steps  have  been  taken  to  plan  and  implement  Jal  Jeevan  Mission  in  the  whole country  with  speed  and  scale, inter  alia which  includes  joint  discussion  and  finalization  of saturation plan and annual action plan (AAP) of States/ UTs, regular review of implementation, workshops/ conferences/ webinars for capacity building, training, knowledge sharing, field visits by multi-disciplinary team to provide technical support, etc. A detailed Operational Guideline 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,  JJMIntegrated Management Information System (IMIS) and JJM-Dashboard has been put in place. Provision  has  also  been  made  for  transparent  online  financial  management  through  Public Financial Management System (PFMS).

Year-wise timelines finalized by States/ UTs for making provision of tap water supply to every rural household is as under:

| 2020   | 2021                                                                      | 2022                                                                                               | 2023                                                                                               | 2024                                                                                  |
|--------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Goa    | Telangana Bihar Puducherry A &NIslands Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu | Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Haryana Uttarakhand Ladakh Manipur Meghalaya Punjab Sikkim Jammu &Kashmir | Arunachal Pradesh Chhattisgarh Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Mizoram Nagaland Tamil Nadu Tripura | Assam Andhra Pradesh Jharkhand Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh West Bengal |

In Goa, Telangana, Haryana, Puducherry, A & N Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, provision of tap water supply to all rural households, has been made.

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