Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)

Background : The Central Government assistance to States for rural water supply began in 1972 with the launch of Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme. It was renamed as National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in 2009, which is a centrally sponsored scheme with fund sharing between the Centre and the States. Under NRDWP, one of the objectives was to “enable all households to have access to and use safe & adequate drinking water within premises to the extent possible”. It was proposed to achieve the goal by 2030, coinciding with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. But now, it is has been planned to achieve the goal by 2024 through Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). As per the information available with DDWS, as on 31.3.2019, only 18.33% of rural households i.e., 3.27 Crore out of the total 17.87 Crore rural households in the country, have piped water connection.

Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM):  Government of India has restructured and subsumed the ongoing National Rural Drinking Water Programme(NRDWP) into Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) to provide Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural household i.e., Har Ghar Nal Se Jal (HGNSJ) by 2024.
The following kinds of works/ schemes are proposed to be taken up under JJM:
i.) In-village water supply (PWS) infrastructure for tap water connection to every household;
ii.) Reliable drinking water source development/ augmentation of existing sources;
iii.) Transfer of water (multi-village scheme; where quantity & quality issues are there in the local water sources);
iv.) Technological intervention for treatment to make water potable (where water quality is an issue, but quantity is sufficient);
v.) Retrofitting of completed and ongoing piped water supply schemes to provide FHTC and raise the service level;
vi.) Grey water management;
vii.) Capacity building of various stakeholders and support activities to facilitate the implementation.

Service level delivery under JJM:
The goal of JJM is to provide functional household tap connection to every household with service level at the rate of 55 litres per capita per day (lpcd).

 The institutional mechanism under JJM:
i) National level National Jal Jeevan Mission
ii) State level State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM)
iii) District level District Water and Sanitation Mission (DWSM)
iv) Gram Panchayat level Paani Samiti/ Village Water & Sanitation Committee (VWSC)/ User group
    
 Note: Notification regarding JJM is published under Notification section.