A whopping Rs 50,000 crore has been earmarked for the Jal Jeevan Mission in Funds 2021-22, whilst Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Monday introduced the scheme’s city phase that goals to offer faucet water connections to 2.86 crore households.
Within the funds, the Ingesting Water and Sanitation Division below the Jal Shakti Ministry has been allotted Rs 60,030 crore whereas Rs 9,022.57 crore has been earmarked for the Division of Water Assets, the River Improvement and Ganga Rejuvenation.
The DWS has seen a hike of greater than 3 times in its funds allocation. In 2019-20, the DWS was allotted Rs 18,264.26 crore. It got here down marginally to Rs 17,023.50 in 2020-21. Within the coming fiscal yr, the DWS has been earmarked Rs 60,030 crore.
Launched in 2019, the Jal Jeevan Mission, a flagship programme of the Modi authorities, goals to offer faucet water connections to rural households by 2024. Thus far, faucet water connections have been given to three.3 crore rural households.
On this funds, Rs 50,000 crore has been earmarked for this scheme. Moreover, Sitharaman introduced the city phase of this scheme.
The bold city phase of the mission will likely be applied over 5 years with an outlay of Rs 2,87,000 crore.
“The Jal Jeevan Mission (city) will likely be launched. It goals at common water provide in all 4,378 City Native Our bodies with 2.86 crore family faucet connections, in addition to liquid waste administration in 500 AMRUT cities. It is going to be applied over 5 years, with an outlay of two,87,000 crores,” Sitharaman stated in her funds speech.
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