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Towards Duty
            Towards  Duty
               Path
               Path
       Years
       Years
              Jal Jeevan Mission-                               Saving the future
              Har Ghar Jal                                    with environmental

           Commencement 15 August, 2019     Scheme              friendly policies
           Pure drinking water started
           at home in rural India

           Objective:Target to have tap water
           connection in every household by
           2024.


                In 32 months after the start of
              the scheme 6.30 crore houses
              get tap connections. Now out
              of 19.32 crore rural households,
              about 9.35 crore houses have
              started getting tap water.    Progress
               Every house in the states of
              Goa, Telangana, and Haryana
              in addition to Andaman and
              Nicobar Islands, Dadra and     पृथ्वी सगन्धा सरसधास्तथधाप: स्पर्शी च वधायुर्ज्वलि ं त च तेज:।
              Nagar Haveli, Daman, and
                                                                    ै
                                                         दं
                                                                         ु
                                                                              ु
              Diu has now a tap water        नभ: सर्ब् महत्धा सह व कवज्वन् सववे गम सुप्रभधातम्।।”
              connection.                    The above shloka in Sanskrit throws light on the importance of
               Rs 3.6 lakh crore will be spent   nature in the life of everyone. Air, water, and sky all are significant
              on the scheme, in which Rs 2.08   parts of nature that play a critical role in human existence. Since
              Lakh Crore will be the central   time immemorial a better environment and clean water have
              government's share.  Till March   been included in our culture as the five basic elements of life.
              31, 2022                       Despite this, it was ironic that a large population of the country
           `61,120                           had to travel far to get drinking water till 2019. The steps that

                                             should have been taken toward a clean environment were not
           crore has been spent, whereas in the   given priority in the past. Now a scheme like Jal Jeevan Mission
           current financial year, Rs 60 thousand   has facilitated taking tap water connection to every household
           crores have been allocated for    whereas the Prime Minister Modi's mantra of Panchamrita is
           providing water to the homes of 3.8   proving very crucial in the direction of protecting the environment.
           crore families.

                 Commencement    December 30, 2021                      Scheme

            New law for dam safety       n  In India there are 5334 large and 411 under-construction dams along
         Objective  Dams will be            Improvement Projects- Drip 1 on 223 dams in 7 states, Drip-2 and Drip-
                                            with thousands of several other small dams.  Dam Rehabilitation and
            safer now
                                            3 will be done in two phases on 736 dams in 19 states at an estimated
                                            Dam Safety Act 2021 to ensure safety with proper monitoring, operation,
            Objective: To develop           cost of Rs 10,211 crore. Notably, the Government of India enacted the
            institutional mechanisms for the   and maintenance of dams, which became effective on December 30,
            safety of dams.                 2021. Under it, two national and two state-level institutions have been
                                            created.



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