Indian Union Budget 2021-22: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Narendra Modi) announced a mission to provide water through pipes to every house in the country on 15 August 2019. Its name is Water Life Mission. Water life mission is a plan of 3.60 lakh crore rupees. A provision of Rs 11,500 crore was made for the Water Life Mission in the budget 2020. But later this budget increased. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Water Power, in the entire financial year 2020-21, Rs 23,500 crore has been allocated for the implementation of the Water Life Mission.
Apart from this, 50% grant of the 15th Finance Commission is being given to rural local bodies in 2020-21, i.e. a grant of Rs 30,375 crore. It will be used for water supply and sanitation. This will help in better planning, implementation, management, operation and maintenance of drinking water supply systems in villages, so that people continue to get potable water on regular and long term basis.
Pure drinking water reached the tap in 278 lakh households
According to the data of the ministry, 278 lakh households have got tap water connections under the Water Life Mission so far. At present, 6.01 crore rural households are getting potable water through tap. 18 districts across the country have provided tap water connections in all houses. The Ministry of Water Power is engaged in implementing the Water Life Mission by 2024 in partnership with the states with the objective of providing sufficient quantity of potable water to the prescribed quality on a regular and long term basis through tap water connection in every rural household of the country. is.
Water Life Mission Parts
This includes water harvesting, water for irrigation, use of seawater, use of waste water, low water cultivation etc. Incentive activities like augmenting local water sources, re-filling existing sources with water are included. Under the mission, villagers are being given information about masonry, plumbing, electrical aspects, motor repair, etc. so that human resources can be trained at the village level.
The ministry says that after the Water Life Mission came into existence, states were requested to re-evaluate the basic data. According to him, there are 19.05 crore rural households in the country, out of which 3.23 crore families were already provided with tap water connections. Tap water connections are to be provided in the remaining 15.81 crore houses. Thus, aiming to cover about 16 crore families in a time bound manner, while ensuring the functionality of the connections already given. This means that about 3.2 crore families have to be covered every year, i.e. 88,000 tap water connections are to be provided on a daily basis. Keeping this goal in mind, the States / Union Territories are making all efforts to provide tap water connections in rural areas.
Partnering with these organizations
Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, partnerships are being formed with reputed national and international agencies including United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations / CBOs, CSR organizations, trusts, establishments etc. Various states / Union Territories have shown commitment to accomplish the mission target before 2024.
Being a decentralized program, village water and sanitation committees (VWSC) / water committees are being formed with a minimum of 50 per cent women members at the village level as a sub-committee of the gram panchayat. He is responsible for preparing the 5-year Village Action Plan (VAP) considering the development, supply, gray-water management, operation and maintenance of water sources.
States status
- Goa has already ensured tap water supply in all houses.
- In 2021, Bihar, Puducherry and Telangana have planned to provide tap water connection to all the houses.
- The states / union territories of Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Meghalaya, Punjab, Sikkim have planned for 2022.
- Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Chhattisgarh have planned 100% coverage in 2023.
- States like Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal have plans for 2024.
Project starts in UP’s Vindhyanchal
In November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of rural drinking water supply projects in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts of Vindhyachal region of Uttar Pradesh. With the help of projects worth Rs 5,555.38 crore, the target is to provide water to 42 lakh villagers of both Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts. This will be done through 9 schemes in Mirzapur and 14 in Sonbhadra.
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Source: www.financialexpress.com