Under Jal Jeevan Mission, water has been provided to 48 lakh 69 thousand 475 rural families of the state through tap connections. The works of the mission in the state started in June 2020 and in the last 21 months, about 49 lakh families have been benefitted from the mission. Under the mission, the Centre and the state bear half the expenditure each for providing water through tap connections to each rural household.
Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has recently declared Burhanpur district as a district having cent percent tap water in the Jal Mahotsav programme. Now the entire rural population of Burhanpur district is getting water through tap connections at their homes.
In the mission, work is being done on various water supply schemes by Public Health Engineering Department and Jal Nigam to provide water through taps to every household of rural families. Water has been made available through tap connection to cent percent households of 4 thousand 258 villages of the state. Under the mission, availability of water has also been ensured in 69 thousand 842 schools and 40 thousand 626 Anganwadi centres operating in rural areas.
Approvals worth Rs 30 thousand 668 crore have been issued by the Public Health Engineering Department of the state government on the proposals received for water supply schemes from the districts in the state. The works of water supply schemes are going on continuously during this period by including its state share in the amount received from the Centre.
In the mission, 39.82 percent achievement has been made in the target of providing water to one crore 22 lakh families through tap connections. So far, 80 percent progress has been registered in one thousand 769 schemes, 90 percent in two thousand 147 schemes and more than 90 percent in three thousand 486 schemes in the works of water supply schemes being carried out in the state.