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Flagship Scheme
Jal Jeevan Mission

FUNCTIONAL TAP
FUNCTIONAL TAP

CONNECTION
CONNECTION

TO EVERY RURAL

HOUSEHOLD

To provide good quality drinking

water in adequate quantity at
regular interval in rural areas, the
Government has launched Jal Jeevan
Mission with the target of providing
universal coverage of drinking water

by 2024

ater is elixir of life whose importance
can never be overstated. For many
Wof us gushing water is available at
the turn of a tap; for a vast majority this basic
necessity of life is virtually a luxury more so
in rural areas. Let alone running taps, this
silent majority lacks even the hand pumps
and is forced to walk miles every day to fetch
their daily pail of water. But no longer, for the
current dispensation has resolved to connect
every rural household to piped water by 2024.
Acknowledging the stark reality, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to
the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort
on August, 15, 2019, said that almost half of
the houses in India do not have direct access
to drinking water. He announced Jal Jeevan
Mission and promised a change in this
scenario in the next five years.
Under the Mission, every day about one
Lakh households are being provided with tap

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