Accelerating socio-economic development.

Jal Jeevan Mission: 

• The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) aims to provide functional household tap connections (FHTC) to every rural household by 2024. 
• The programme focuses on providing services at the household level, such as regular water supply in adequate quantity and of prescribed quality.
• Know more about Jal Jeevan Mission. Challenges: 

Changing rainfall patterns: Rainfall varies greatly in space and time as a result of climate change, resulting in less surface storage of water thereby impacting the functioning of JJM.

Water quality issues: Due to geogenic and anthropogenic causes, approximately half of the assessment units are found to be contaminated with arsenic, fluoride, chlorine, nitrate, and/or salinity. 

Lack of resource efficiency: Lack of responsible consumption, wastage of water, leakages at distribution & end-use points, biological contamination, over-usage for agriculture, etc. are prevalent leading to inefficient resource utilization. 

Critical analysis of Jal Jeevan Mission: 

With numerous challenges, JJM provides an opportunity to carry out a SWOT analysis for better planning and implementation. The same has been attempted and is as under: