PM Modi launches Jal Jeevan Mission app, emphasises urgent need to stop water wastage

New Delhi, October 02: Leveraging the technological advancements to ensure that villages and rural households get access to clean drinking water, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) mobile application.

 

 

Jal Jeevan Mission is expected to facilitate tap water connection in every rural household, school, Anganwadi center. The mobile application will improve awareness among stakeholders and work towards providing greater transparency and bringing accountability of schemes under the initiative.

 

Addressing various gram panchayats and Village Water and Sanitation Committees (VWSC) representatives through video conferencing, PM Modi said that through the Jal Jeevan Mission every household in their villages has now a tap connection that provides them with clean drinking water.

 

 

The Prime minister informed that despite the COVID-19 challenge, more than five Crore households have been provided with tap water connections. As of date, about 8.26 Crore (43 percent) rural households have a tap water supply in their homes. Every rural household in 78 districts, 58 thousand Gram Panchayats, and 1.16 lakh villages are getting tap water supply. Till now, tap water supply has been provided in 7.72 lakh (76 percent) schools and 7.48 lakh (67.5 percent) Anganwadi centers.

 

 

 

"From the time of Independence till 2019, only three crore households in our country had access to tap water. Since the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, five crore households have been provided with water connections," he said.

 

"Today, water is reaching every household in about 1.25 lakh villages in about 80 districts of the country. That is, today's India has done more work in just two years than what was done in the last seven decades," he added.

 

He also said that Jal Jeevan Mission has been empowering women in the country by saving their time and efforts which was earlier consumed in covering long distances to fetch drinking water.

 

Moreover the underling the importance of water, PM Modi reaffirmed the urgent need to stop water wastage. "We need to use water as a prasad. Some people don't use water judiciously and waste it. Only those people value water who are finding it tough to source it. At many places, water is being wasted and tap remains open," said PM Modi.

 

The mobile application will provide details of water infrastructure, an Aadhaar-verified data set of beneficiaries, and water quality and contamination-related information for each village. The information will be available to users on a public forum alongside specific data for each village, district, and state-level body concerning water.

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