NATIONAL RURAL DRINKING WATER PROGRAMME

By ppb -

February 3, 2022

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During the 12th Five Year Plan, States/ UTs had targeted to provide safe drinking water at reasonable distance to 5.56 lakh partially covered with service level of less than 40 lpcd potable water and quality-affected water quality issues in ground water sources rural habitations and as reported, achieved the coverage in 5.92 lakh rural habitations across the country. State/ UT–wise details of targets and achievement made therein during the 12th Five Year Plan period is annexed. Since August, 2019 Government of India in partnership with States, is implementing Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) after subsuming erstwhile National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) to make provision of potable water to every rural household through tap water connection, by 2024.

A number of steps have been taken to plan and implement JJM in the whole country with speed, inter alia, which includes joint discussion and finalization of saturation plan and annual action plan (AAP) of States/ UTs, regular review of implementation, workshops/ conferences/ webinars for capacity building, training, knowledge sharing, field visits by multi-disciplinary team to provide technical support, etc. A detailed Operational Guideline for the implementation of JJM; Margdarshika for Gram Panchayats & VWSCs to provide safe drinking water in rural households; and Guidelines on a special campaign to provide piped water supply in anganwadi centres, ashramshalas and schools have been shared with States/ UTs to facilitate planning and implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission. For online monitoring, JJM–Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) and JJM–Dashboard has been put in place. Provision has also been made for transparent online financial management through Public Financial Management System (PFMS).

This Information was given by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

State/ UT-wise details of the targets (as number of habitations) and achievement under erstwhile NRDWP in 2012-13 to 2016-17

S. No.	Year	2012-13		2013-14		2014-15		2015-16		2016-17
S. No.	State/ UT	Target	Achievement	Target	Achievement	Target	Achievement	Target	Achievement	Target	Achievement
	A & N Islands	NR	NR	NR	NR	4	NR	5	NR	5	NR
	Andhra Pradesh	5,477	5,699	5,798	6,378	2,744	2,819	980	1,905	1,005	1,373
	Arunachal Pradesh	292	358	304	369	248	214	217	143	188	126
	Assam	7,230	7,110	7,175	6,552	9,938	6,399	3,993	1,659	1,752	382
	Bihar	15,015	10,960	13,832	12,787	13,000	12,236	5,692	7,189	7,777	1,289
	Chhattisgarh	12,641	9,111	10,700	11,832	10,900	12,173	3,894	3,670	4,169	997
	Goa	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	2	NR	2	NR
	Gujarat	1,150	1,856	1,050	4,085	1,075	2,498	961	1,193	32	1,605
	Haryana	955	895	818	702	534	523	248	317	263	290
	Himachal Pradesh	2,532	2,650	2,500	2,587	2,500	2,560	1,115	1,536	1,300	938
	Jammu & Kashmir	1,279	1,153	955	901	803	642	359	233	380	260
	Jharkhand	16,583	17,335	12,132	12,546	16,535	9,185	7,307	1,868	1,430	3,074
	Karnataka	10,403	13,284	10,378	17,522	10,003	15,398	4,551	19,791	12,000	17,434
	Kerala	696	668	924	356	1,000	221	429	432	463	291
	Madhya Pradesh	17,074	17,483	13,050	13,858	10,876	12,378	5,421	11,478	338	7,420
	Maharashtra	5,940	4,637	4,713	4,064	4,200	3,747	1,611	1,566	1,955	1,270
	Manipur	250	197	250	260	200	224	52	80	50	103
	Meghalaya	628	510	616	549	200	285	280	242	110	82
	Mizoram	57	5	45	57	52	51	31	28	35	35
	Nagaland	175	178	85	155	120	190	24	168	54	167
	Odisha	12,209	19,484	13,500	18,447	13,500	20,521	8,620	15,224	9,300	8,196
	Puducherry	30	NR	23	NR	23	NR	5	NR	5	NR
	Punjab	1,473	617	1,939	1,227	1,850	570	261	251	779	647
	Rajasthan	9,137	3,943	2,990	4,244	3,173	3,513	1,963	2,763	2,039	2,908
	Sikkim	280	101	200	87	200	128	45	81	40	14
	Tamil Nadu	7,000	7,203	6,000	5,742	4,805	8,622	1,494	1,390	3,269	2,910
	Telangana	NA	NA	NA	NA	2,057	2,143	802	1,669	915	1,121
	Tripura	1,052	1,323	1,178	1,120	1,382	1,538	525	938	565	571
	Uttar Pradesh	24,000	23,727	25,000	22,666	24,500	10,461	2,334	4,300	1,354	1,838
	Uttarakhand	1,085	983	1,083	988	1,056	976	473	479	495	484
	West Bengal	4,152	4,236	4,600	3,347	4,620	5,891	2,497	5,295	4,766	5,217
	Total	1,58,795	1,55,706	1,41,838	1,53,428	1,42,098	1,36,106	56,191	85,888	56,835	61,042