Question : Water Connections to Every Household by 2024

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:
(a) whether the Government is on track to meet its promise of providing water connections to every household by 2024;
(b) if so, the details of progress made as on date and if not, the reasons therefor;
(c) whether a revised target and/or deadline has been set and if so, the details thereof;
(d) the percentage of rural and urban households with tap water connections so far, State-wise; and
(e) the percentage of rural households with piped water connections, State-wise?

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) to make provision of tap water supply to every rural household of the country by 2024.
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. So far, 6.57 Crore (34.32%) rural households have been provided with tap water connections in last 35 months. Thus, as of date, out of 19.15 Crore rural households in the country, around 9.81 Crore (51.22%) households are reported to have tap water supply in their homes.
(c) Drinking Water being a State subject, it is States, 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. The year-wise timelines finalized by States/ UTs for making provision of tap water supply to every rural household is as under:


Year State/ UT
2020 Goa
2021 Telangana, Puducherry, A & N Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
2022 Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Punjaband Jammu & Kashmir
2023 Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Tripura,
2024 Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal

In Goa, Telangana, Haryana, Puducherry, A & N Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, provision for tap water supply to all rural households has been made.
(d) & (e) State-wise details of rural households with tap water connections is at Annex-I.
As informed by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, AMRUT was launched on 25 June, 2015 in selected 500 cities across all States /Union Territories (UTs) with focus on providing infrastructure in the sectors of water supply, sewerage and septage management, storm water drainage, non-motorized urban transport, and green spaces and parks. So far, out of target of providing 139 lakh tap connections to achieve universal water supply coverage in the selected cities, 130 lakh (91.5%) household water tap connections have been provided under AMRUT and in convergence with other schemes. State-wise details of household tap connections provided under AMRUT and in convergence with other schemes is given at Annex – II.
Further, Government of India has launched AMRUT 2.0 on 01 October, 2021 for the period of 05 years (FY 2021-22 to 2025-26), with the objective of providing universal coverage of water supply through functional household tap connections in all statutory towns in the country.
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