(a) whether all the public places under each panchayat would be provided with safe drinking water under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP);
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) the details of number of Panchayats where safe drinking water has been provided at public places under the programme, State-wise and the special efforts being made to meet the target during the current financial year?
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI
(SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL)
(a) & (b) Since August 2019, Government of India, in partnership with States, is implementing Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), after subsuming erstwhile National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), to make provision of tap water supply to every rural household and public institutions in villages like schools, anganwadi centres, ashramshalas (tribal residential schools), health and wellness centres, Gram Panchayat building, etc., by 2024.
(c) State/ UT–wise details of tap water connections reported to have been provided at public places including that in Panchayats is annexed. A number of steps have been taken to plan and implement JJM with speed and scale, inter alia which includes joint discussion and finalization of saturation plan as well as annual action plan (AAP) of States/ UTs, regular review of implementation, workshops/ conferences/ webinars for capacity building and 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 schools, anganwadi centres and ashramshalas 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).
The detailed information related to status as well as progress in making the provision of tap water supply to rural households and public institutions in villages is in public domain on JJM – dashboard, and available at:
https://ejalshakti.gov.in/jjmreport/JJMIndia.aspx
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