Jal Jeevan Mission: State-Wise Planning Exercise Begins For 2021–22 | Odisha News | Odisha Breaking News | Odisha News | Latest Odisha News

New Delhi: Because the Jal Jeevan Mission – Har Ghar Jal introduced on 15^th August, 2019, to supply Practical Family Faucet Connection (FHTC) to each rural dwelling by 2024, enters its third yr of implementationwith a Central grant of Rs.50,011 Crore in 2021-22, the Nationwide Jal Jeevan Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti is ready to roll out the annual planning train with States/ UTs from 9^th April, 2021. This month-long train, day by day taking on two States/ UTs, is completed by a committee chaired by Secretary, DDWS and with members from completely different Central Ministries/ Departments and NITI Aayog to do a rigorous scrutiny of the proposed Annual Motion Plan (AAP) ready byStates/ UTs earlier than finalizing the identical. Thereafter, funds are launched all year long and common subject visits, assessment conferences are held to make sure implementation of those Annual Motion Plans to attain the objective of Jal Jeevan Mission.

Because the monetary yr 2021-22 begins, the rigorous joint assessment train to finalize the Annual Motion Plans (AAPs) is all set to start from 9^th April. This yr is a really vital yr for JJM, which requires intensive planning based mostly on rigorous information evaluation, capability of States/ UTs to execute the work based mostly on final two yr’s progress, their preparedness, and many others. Whereas implementing, States/ UTs are to present precedence to water quality-affected areas, villages in drought inclined and desert areas, Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe majority villages, 60 JE-AES affected and 117 Aspirational districts and Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana villages to supply all households with faucet water connection in a time-bound method.

Along with 50,000 Crore budgetary allocation for JJM, there may be additionally Rs. 26,940 Crore assured fund out there below the 15^th Finance Fee tied-grants to RLB/ PRIs for water & sanitation, matching State share and externally aided tasks. Thus, in 2021-22, greater than Rs. 1 lakh Crore is deliberate to be invested within the nation on making certain faucet water provide to rural houses. This type of funding is more likely to proceed over three years to attain Har Ghar Jal.

The State Motion Plan is ready by States/ UTs with an goal to supply 100% households with faucet water connections and obtain general ingesting water safety. That is the grasp plan with detailed info on variety of schemes to be retrofitted/ new schemes to attain saturationalongwith timelines to provoke and full& fee the schemes on floor. It’s going to additionally establish sources of convergence, spend money on sensor-based IoT expertise for real-time monitoring and measurement of water provide, agency up State O&M coverage, intensify IEC/ BCC, Water High quality Monitoring &Surveillance actions, and many others.

The AAP (2021–22)will furtheremphasize on assist actions like empowering Village Water & Sanitation Committees (VWSCs)/ Pani Samitis, preparation and approval of Village Motion Plans (VAPs) which could have the parts of ingesting water supply strengthening/ augmentation, water provide infrastructure, gray water therapy & reuse, and operation & upkeep of in-village water provide programs. The States/ UTs are additionally to plan for intense coaching and skilling programmes, particularly 5 individuals in each village on water high quality surveillance and local people members as masons, plumbers, electricians, motor mechanics, fitter, pump operators, and many others.

The particular marketing campaign to supply faucet water connections in faculties, anganwadi centres (AWCs) and Ashramshalas below the Jal Jeevan Mission has acquired an excellent response from the States & UTs with a number of States reporting 100% saturation in all faculties and AWCs. All of the remaining States/ UTs have to finish provision of PWS for ingesting, cooking mid-day meals, handwashing and use in bathrooms. In these establishments, rainwater harvesting and gray water reuse is promoted in a giant means in order that our future generations inculcate the spirit of holistic administration of water for water safety and improved hygiene and sanitation in villages.

Additional, States/ UTs even have the chance to obtain efficiency incentive offered they’ve good bodily and monetary progress, performance of PWS schemes and capability to make the most of the fund. In 2020-21, seven States viz. Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh acquired efficiency incentive grant of Rs.465 Crore below the JJM.

Whereas asserting the mission, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi said that Jal Jeevan Mission can be applied in partnership with States and water must be made everybody’ enterprise. On 22^nd March, 2021, whereas launching 2^nd version of Jal Shakti Abhiyan, Prime Minister exhorted the nation to catch the rain wherever and at any time when it falls. This annual planning train is to translate the imaginative and prescient of Prime Minister to contain everybody, work in partnership by making certain that planning and implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission is completed in a participatory method. At State and district stage, NGOs, voluntary organizations, self-help teams, and many others. are concerned in supporting the native village communities as implementation assist businesses. Additional, 124 – reputed nationwide stage NGOs, trusts, foundations, establishments and UN businesses are additionally concerned as sector companion to dovetail their efforts to attain the objective of Har Ghar Jal.

After the presentation of finances on 1^st February, 2021, Prime Minister has set the agenda for quick implementation of all infrastructure associated tasks by making certain stakeholder’s session. A Webinar was held on 16 & 17^th February, which was addressed by the Prime Minister to hunt the views of assorted stakeholders like State Governments, consultants, UN businesses, sector companions, NGOs, and many others. to implement the mission with velocity and scale by making certain folks’s participation. The Jal Jeevan Mission particular stakeholder’s session was addressed by Union Jal Shakti Minister Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Minister of State Shri Rattan Lal Kataria. To offer it an extra push, a digital convention of States/ UT’s Minister on Jal Jeevan Mission was additionally held so that every one states/ UTs work in unison to attain the widespread objective i.e. protected piped water provide to each dwelling.

Since launch of this mission in August 2019, regardless of the CoVid-19 pandemic, subsequent lockdowns and big challenges, up to now over 4.07 Crore rural households have been supplied with faucet water connections. Now, over 7.30 Crore i.e. 38% rural households are getting potable water by faucets. Goa has grow to be the primary State within the nation to supply each rural family with faucet water provide adopted by Telangana and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The persistent efforts made by States/ UTs and district authorities together with Gram Panchayats and native communities have helped in offering assured faucet water provide to each household residing in 58 districts and over 87 thousand villages. That is the velocity and scale, with which the Mission is working to vary the lives of individuals residing in rural areas. States/ UTs are actually competing with one another and specializing in the goal to make sure that each family within the nation will get protected ingesting water, in order that ‘nobody is disregarded’.

Determine 1: Timelines for offering 100% FHTCs

To usher in transparency and make info out there to citizen, NJJM has developed JJM dashboard whereby the net progress of implementation and standing of faucet water provide in houses has been put in public area. The JJM dashboard not solely supplies detailed info of the nation however one can see the standing of implementation and progress at State/ UT stage, district stage and village stage. Info associated to water provide in villages together with names of the pinnacle of households who have gotten faucet water connection, standing of water provide in faculties and anganwadi centres together with piped water in bathrooms and hand washing amenities together with provision of rain water harvesting and gray water use are additionally offered. The dashboard additionally supplies details about institutional preparations like folks managing varied points of water provide in villages together with water high quality testing.

The JJM dashboard additionally exhibits the ‘sensor-based IoT pilot mission occurring completely different villages which exhibits the standing of day by day water provide when it comes to amount, high quality and regularity. In these pilots one can see the standard of water together with chlorination, water strain in pipes at completely different locations and per capita provide on day by day foundation. This dashboard may be accessed at:https://ejalshakti.gov.in/jjmreport/JJMIndia.aspx

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