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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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