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    5.2. Jal Jeevan Mission Urban: Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation Under The Jal Shakti Mantralaya

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    The Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) was announced in 2021 to provide universal coverage of water supply in all statutory towns. It will provide 100% central funding for UTs, 90% for northeastern states, and decreasing central assistance for other states depending on city population size. Funding will be released in tranches based on outcomes achieved. Cities over 1 million must allocate at least 10% of funds to public-private partnership projects. The mission aims to leverage new technologies, increase public awareness, and conduct annual water distribution surveys. Its goals are to ensure equitable water access, wastewater reuse, and improve water management in cities.

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    The Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) was announced in 2021 to provide universal coverage of water supply in all statutory towns. It will provide 100% central funding for UTs, 90% for northeastern states, and decreasing central assistance for other states depending on city population size. Funding will be released in tranches based on outcomes achieved. Cities over 1 million must allocate at least 10% of funds to public-private partnership projects. The mission aims to leverage new technologies, increase public awareness, and conduct annual water distribution surveys. Its goals are to ensure equitable water access, wastewater reuse, and improve water management in cities.

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    The Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) was announced in 2021 to provide universal coverage of water supply in all statutory towns. It will provide 100% central funding for UTs, 90% for northeastern states, and decreasing central assistance for other states depending on city population size. Funding will be released in tranches based on outcomes achieved. Cities over 1 million must allocate at least 10% of funds to public-private partnership projects. The mission aims to leverage new technologies, increase public awareness, and conduct annual water distribution surveys. Its goals are to ensure equitable water access, wastewater reuse, and improve water management in cities.

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    JAL JEEVAN MISSION URBAN


    Why in news?
    Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) was announced by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in Union Budget 2021-22.
    Salient features of Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban)
    • Funding: 100% central funding for Union
    Territories, 90% for North Eastern and Hill
    States, 50% for cities with less than 1 lakh
    population, one third for cities with 1 lakh
    to 10 lakh population and 25% for cities
    with million plus population.
    • Outcome based Funding: Funding will be in
    three tranches of 20:40:40. Third
    instalment onwards will be released based
    on outcomes achieved and credible
    exclusion.
    • Promoting PPP Model: Mandatory for
    cities having millions plus population to
    take up PPP projects worth minimum of
    10% of their total project fund allocation.
    • To leverage latest global technologies a
    Technology Sub-Mission for water.
    • To spread Mass Awareness,
    Information, Education and Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) (Rural)
    Communication (IEC) campaign. • JJM was launched in 2019, Department of Drinking Water and
    • Pey Jal Survekshan survey will be Sanitation under the Jal Shakti Mantralaya.
    conducted in 10 cities to ascertain • It aims at providing supply of 55 litres of water per person per day
    equitable distribution of water, reuse to every rural household (Har Ghar Nal Se Jal) through Functional
    of wastewater and mapping of water Household Tap Connection (FHTC) by 2024.
    o FHTC means a tap connection to a rural household for
    bodies with respect to quantity and
    providing drinking water in adequate quantity of prescribed
    quality of water through a challenge
    quality on regular basis.
    process. o About 3.2 crore of rural households have been provided with
    o Based on the learnings, it will be FTWC since the launch of the Mission, covering around 34 per
    extended to all the AMRUT cities. cent of the targeted households (65.5 million) in rural India.
    o Focus on strengthening urban • Challenges/limitations of JJM (R)
    local bodies by reducing non- o Lack of convergence with other related schemes for water
    revenue water to below 20%, management like Atal Bhujal Yojana and National Aquifer
    promoting dual piping systems Mapping and Management Programme.
    etc. o Inadequate focus on water quality - An assessment by the
    ✓ Raising funds through department found that as many as 56,788 rural households in
    18 states have water contaminated with fluoride, arsenic,
    issuance of municipal bonds.
    iron, salinity, nitrate and heavy metals.
    Non-revenue water is the o Lack of in-village infrastructure, lack of capacity of local
    difference between the communities and poor operation and maintenance.
    volume of water put into a
    water distribution system and the volume that is billed to customers.
    Need for the Mission
    • Large uncovered population: In urban India, 40.9 per cent households have piped water connections. 48.6 per
    cent rural households and 28 per cent urban households are without access to an improved source of drinking
    water throughout the year.
    • Water Scarcity: According to NITI Aayog, currently, 600 million Indians face high to extreme water stress and
    about two lakh people die every year due to inadequate access to safe water. Also, number of waterbodies
    is declining rapidly, e.g., in 1960s Bangalore had 262 lakes and now, only 10 hold water.

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