Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh becomes 100th ‘Har Ghar Jal’ District

Context

Jal Jeevan Mission has achieved the significant milestone of providing tap water to every home of 100 districts across the country.

Key-points

• Chamba, in Himachal Pradesh, has become the 100th ‘Har Ghar Jal’ district, the fifth aspirational district to be covered under the initiative. 
• The other four Har Ghar Jal Aspirational districts are Bhadradri Kothgudem, Jayashankar Bhupalpalli, Komram Bheem Asifabad (all in Telangana) and Mewat in Haryana.
• In the past two and a half years, Jal Jeevan Mission has provided tap water supply to more than 5.78 crore rural households.
• Under the Mission, the Center aims to provide tap water supply to every rural household by 2024.
• As of 15 August, 2019, when the mission was announced, out of 19.27 crore households, only 3.23 crore (17%) households in India had tap water connections.
• In Goa, Haryana, Telangana, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Puducherry, Dadar & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, every rural household has tap water supply, the data showed.
• Punjab (99%), Himachal Pradesh (92.4%), Gujarat (92%) and Bihar (90%) are on the verge of achieving the feat in 2022.
• The ‘Har Ghar Har Jal’ scheme was provided ?60,000 crore in the Union Budget 2022-23.

About Jal Jeevan Mission

• Jal Jeevan Mission is a central government initiative under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
• It aims to ensure access to 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.