Lok Sabha Question No. 1003 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-02-08
Subject: Har Ghar Nal Se Jal in Jammu and Kashmir
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Jugal Kishore Sharma, Geeta Kora

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1003 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.02.2024

## Har Ghar Nal Se Jal in Jammu and Kashmir

## †1003. SHRI JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA: SHRIMATI GEETA KORA:

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a) the number of beneficiaries covered and who are yet to be covered under the Har Ghar Nal Se Jal Scheme in Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in Jammu parliamentary constituency and Jharkhand particularly in Singhbhum parliamentary constituency

(b) whether the Government is making efforts to extend the scheme to every village by identifying the beneficiaries who are yet to be covered under this scheme; and

(c) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI (SHRI RAJEEV CHANDRASEKHAR)

(a)  Government  of  India  is  committed  to  make  provision  for  safe  &  potable  tap  water  supply  in adequate quantity, of prescribed quality and on a regular & long-term basis to all rural households in the country. Towards this end, the Government of India launched the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), to be implemented in partnership with states, in August 2019. Drinking Water is a state subject, and hence, the responsibility of planning, approval, implementation, operation, and maintenance of drinking water supply schemes, including those under the Jal Jeevan Mission, lies with State/UT Governments. The Government of India supports the States by providing technical and financial assistance.

Significant progress has been made in the country since the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission, towards enhancing access to tap water to rural households. At the start of Jal Jeevan Mission in August 2019, only 3.23 Crore (16.8%) rural households were reported to have tap water connections. So far, as reported by States/ UTs as on 06.02.2024, around 11.02 Crore additional rural households have been provided with tap water connections under JJM. Thus, as on 06.02.2024, out of 19.27 Crore rural households in the country, approximately 14.25 Crore (73.98%) households are reported to have tap water supply.

Similarly,  at  the  time  of  announcement  of  Jal  Jeevan  Mission  in  August  2019,  5.75  lakh (30.75%) and 3.45 lakh (5.56%) rural households in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand respectively were reported to have tap water connections. Since then, an additional 8.60 lakh and 27.32 lakh rural households  in  Jammu  and  Kashmir  and  Jharkhand  respectively  have  been  provided  with  tap water  connections  over  last  four  years  under  JJM.  Thus,  as  on  06.02.2024,  out  of  18.72  lakh and 62.02 lakh rural households in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand, around 14.35 lakh (76.70%) and 30.77 lakh (49.61%) households in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand respectively are reported to have tap water supply.

The  details  of  physical  progress  of  JJM  in  the  districts  covered  under  Jammu  and  Singhbhum Parliamentary Constituencies are Annexed.

(b) & (c) A number of steps have been taken to plan and implement JJM in the whole country, with speed, 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, JJM-Integrated 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).

Annex Status of JJM in districts covered under parliamentary constituencies of Jammu and

## Singhbhum

| State/UT          | Parliamentar y Constituency   | District                | Total no. of rural households   | No. of households with tap water connections as on 15.08.2019   |   Tap water connectio ns provided since launch of JJM | No. of household s with tap water connectio ns as on date   |   No. of households to be provided with tap water connection |
|-------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| Jammu and Kashmir | Jammu                         | Jammu                   | 1,86,725                        | 48,970                                                          |                                                 58472 | 1,07,442                                                    |                                                        79283 |
| Jammu and Kashmir |                               | Samba                   | 61,713                          | 18,676                                                          |                                                 32168 | 50,844                                                      |                                                        10869 |
| Jammu and Kashmir |                               | Rajouri                 | 1,33,201                        | 13,914                                                          |                                                 68343 | 82,257                                                      |                                                        50944 |
| Jammu and Kashmir |                               | Reasi                   | 77,477                          | 24,973                                                          |                                                 44944 | 69,917                                                      |                                                         7560 |
| Jharkhand         | Singhbhum                     | Sareikela And Kharsawan | 1,84,191                        | 7,226                                                           |                                                 80564 | 87,790                                                      |                                                        96401 |
| Jharkhand         |                               | Paschim Singhbhum       | 3,30,472                        | 10,325                                                          |                                                188981 | 1,99,306                                                    |                                                       131166 |