Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) to revive urban water bodies: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 25 June 2023

Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) to revive urban water bodies

✓Jal Jeevan Mission, a central government initiative under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, aims to ensure access of piped water for every household in India.

✓The mission’s goal is to provide to all households in rural India safe and adequate water through individual household tap connections by 2024.

✓The Har Ghar Nal Se Jal programme was announced by FM in Budget 2019-20 speech.

✓This programme forms a crucial part of the Jal Jeevan Mission.

✓The programme aims to implement source sustainability measures as mandatory elements, such as recharge and reuse through greywater management, water conservation, and rainwater harvesting.

Urban component of the mission

✓The mission is meant to create a people’s movement for water, making it everyone’s priority.

✓There are an estimated gap of 2.68 crore urban household tap connections that the Mission would seek to bridge in all 4,378 statutory towns.

✓The Mission would also aim to bridge the gap of 2.64 crore sewer connections in the 500 cities under the existing Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).

✓The mission would include rejuvenation of water bodies to boost the sustainable freshwater supply and the creation of green spaces.