Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to chair conference on Jal Jeevan Mission today

New Delhi: The Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat can be chairing a conference of states and UTs ministers on Jal Jeevan Mission on Saturday (March 13, 2021). It can be with all of the ministers of states and UTs in-charge of the Rural Water Supply.

The conference is organized to focus on planning, implementation and progress made thus far in addition to the best way ahead in order that the remaining households in villages get faucet water connections on the earliest.

In the conference, Shekhawat is scheduled to launch the ‘Drinking water high quality testing, monitoring & surveillance’ and likewise launch the JJM – Water Quality Management Information System (WQMIS). 

The Mission has developed the net portal and cell app on WQMIS in partnership with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The absolutely automated information administration system will check water samples and assist in assuring a protected provide of ingesting water and in case of contamination, remedial motion shall be initiated. 

Notably, for the primary time, the water high quality information can be made out there within the public area in keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginative and prescient for transparency, accountability and good governance.

The Minister of State for Jal Shakti Rattan Lal Kataria, Secretary DDWS Pankaj Kumar, Addl Secretary & Mission Director Bharat Lal can be current within the conference. 

The Jal Jeevan Mission is a flagship programme of the Union Government for offering faucet water connection in each rural family by 2024. 

Since the announcement of Jal Jeevan Mission on August 15 2019, important progress has been made throughout the nation and thus far, greater than 3.79 crore rural households have been supplied with faucet water connections, as per the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

Every household dwelling in 52 districts, 672 Blocks, 42,322 Panchayats and 81,863 villages are getting assured faucet water provide of their houses.

Under the mission, intention is to present 12 crore family faucet connections with an funding of greater than 1 lakh crore yearly for subsequent three years.