While presenting the Budget 2022 in parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that Rs 60,000 crore has been allocated to the Har Ghar Jal Scheme of the Indian government for the financial year 2022-23. “Under the scheme, 8.7 crore households have already been covered of which 5.5 crore have been covered in the pat two years only,” said the finance minister.

She went on to inform that in the coming financial year 2022-23, with an allocation of Rs 60,000 crore, another 3.8 crore households will be covered under the Har Ghar Jal scheme.

Launched in 2019, the central government’s Jal Jeevan Mission has so far provided tap water supply to 45.68 per cent of the rural households across the country. Goa, Telangana, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Puducherry, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Haryana have achieved 100 per cent tap water coverage under the scheme, shows the official data. 

Only 13.22 per cent of rural households in Uttar Pradesh have been provided with tap water supply, which is the lowest in the country, shows the data of the central government’s Jal Jeevan Mission, which is implementing the ‘Har Ghar Jal’ scheme to provide tap water connections to all households in the country. In short, 86.78 per cent of the rural families in Uttar Pradesh – that is 22.9 million village households – depend on handpumps or other private means of water supply.

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