Under Jal Jeevan Mission, 50 mn houses got water connection: PM Modi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Since the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, five crore households have got water connection and now tap water is reaching every household in about 1.25 lakh villages, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, asserting that today’s India has done more work in just two years than what was done in seven decades.

Speaking after interacting with gram panchayats and pani samitis/village water and sanitation committees (VWSC) on the Jal Jeevan Mission, Modi said the mission is not just about bringing water to people but it is also a decentralisation movement that is village and women-driven.

“From the time of Independence till 2019, only three crore households in our country had access to tap water. Since the launch of the Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019, five crore households were provided with water connections,” he said. “Today, water is reaching every household in about 1.25 lakh villages in about 80 districts of the country. That is, today’s India has done more work in just two years than what was done in the last seven decades,” he said.