Statement

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state: (a) the steps being taken by the Government to ensure the quality of drinking water supplied in rural areas; and (b) whether there are any States or districts lagging behind under the Jal Jeevan Mission as on date and if so, the details thereof along with the 18.12.2025 1011 assistance being provided to them? THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI; AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI V. SOMANNA): (a) and (b): The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) – Har Ghar Jal, was launched in August 2019, in partnership with States/ UTs to make provision of potable tap water supply in adequate quantity, of prescribed quality and on regular and long-term basis to rural households. Drinking Water being a State subject, the responsibility of Planning, Designing, Approval, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance of drinking water supply schemes, including those under the Jal Jeevan Mission, is vested with State/UT Governments. The Government of India supplements the efforts of the States by providing technical and financial assistance. Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, as per existing guidelines, Bureau of Indian Standards’ BIS:10500 standards are adopted as benchmark for quality of water being supplied through the water supply schemes. As per the Operational Guidelines, States/ UTs can utilize up to 2% of their annual allocation of funds under JJM for Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance (WQMandS) activities, inter-alia, which includes setting up and strengthening of water quality testing laboratories, procurement of equipment, instruments, chemicals, glassware, consumables, hiring of skilled manpower, surveillance by community using field test kits (FTKs), awareness generation, educational programmes on water quality, accreditation/recognition of laboratories, etc. As reported by States/UTs, as on date, there are 2,848 drinking water quality testing laboratories at different levels viz. State, regional, district, sub-division, 18.12.2025 1012 block, mobile and/ or WTP facility laboratories. To encourage water quality testing to the rural community/ public, the States/ UTs have opened water quality testing laboratories to general public for testing of their water samples at a nominal rate. The Department released the "Handbook on Drinking Water Treatment Technologies" which was published in March 2023 and the "Concise Handbook for Monitoring Water Quality of Piped Drinking Water Supply to Rural Households" in December 2024. Both aim to guide field practitioners in effectively managing safe water supply system. For monitoring of coverage of tap connections in States/ UTs, this department has developed an online JJM dashboard which provides State/ UT, district and village-wise progress as well as status of provision of tap water supply to rural homes. Significant progress has been made in the country since the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission, towards enhancing access to tap water to rural households. At the start of Jal Jeevan Mission in August 2019, only 3.23 Crore (16.72%) rural households were reported to have tap water connections. So far, as reported by States/UTs, more than 12.52 crore additional rural households have been provided with tap water connections under JJM. Thus, as on 16.12.2025, out of 19.36 crore rural households in the country, more than 15.76 crore (81.42%) households are reported to have tap water supply in their homes. The state-wise and district-wise details of tap connections is in public domain and may be accessed at below link: https://ejalshakti.gov.in/jjmreport/JJMState.aspx. ______ 18.12.2025 1013

Spoke Lumbaram Choudhary

Spoke on 2025-12-18T00:00:00.000Z

In debate The Speaker made references to the passing away of Sh. Darur Pullaiah, Member of 6th and 7th Lok Sabha, Prof. Mahadeorao Shivankar Member of 9th and 14th Lok Sabha, Sh. Kusuma Krishna Murthy, Member of 6th , 7th and 9th Lok Sabha and Sh. Shamanur Shivashankarappa, Member of 12th Lok Sabha