Since the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, five crore households have been provided with water connection and now tap water is reaching every household in about 1.25 lakh villages as informed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to the reports, PM Modi stated that today’s India has done more work on this front in just two years than what was done in seven decades. After interacting with gram panchayats and village water and sanitation committees (VWSC) on the Jal Jeevan Mission, PM Modi stated that the mission was village-driven and its vision was not just to make water accessible to the people, but it was also a big movement of decentralisation.
In a video conferencing, PM Modi said “In the places where these people lived, they had never seen such a problem with water. They did not even know what the pain of life without water is. They had water in the house, water in the swimming pool, an abundance of water. These people should have strived for an ideal village but they kept liking the shortcomings in the village.’
PM Modi also asserted that the vision of Jal Jeevan Mission is a village-driven and women-driven movement, and its main base is a mass movement and public participation. Referring to popular conceptions of the problem of water, the prime minister talked of movies, stories, poems that told in detail how the women and children of the village walked miles to fetch water.
He also asked why so few people think about question as to why these people have to go to some river or pond every day and why the water does not reach these people. Pointing out that from the time of independence till 2019, only three crore households in the country had access to tap water, he said since the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, five crore households have been connected with water connections.
