The Centre government allocates a bugdet of Rs 3,323 crore to Odisha for the Jal Jeevan Mission. This mission is a four-fold increase compared to the last fiscal, the Jal Shakti ministry said on Sunday.

The four-fold increase in allocation, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat assures the state of full assistance for making provisions of tap water supply in every rural home by March 2024. The ministry in its statement said "The central grant to Odisha under the Jal Jeevan Mission in the year 2021-22 has been increased to Rs 3,323.42 crore, which was Rs 812.15 crore in 2020-21.” At the start of the mission in 2019, of the 18.93 crore rural households in the country, only 3.23 crore had tap water connections. Now, within last 22 months, despite the COVID-19 pandemic the Jal Jeevan Mission has been implemented with speed and 4.5 crore households have been provided with tap water connections.

Some other parts across the country includes Goa, Telangana, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry have achieved the "Har Ghar Jal" target of providing tap water supply to all the households. Currently, every household in 69 districts and more than 99,000 villages in the country has tap water supply, the ministry said. Refering to the facts and numbers, the 85.66 lakh households in Odisha, 25.95 lakh have tap water supply now. The state has plans to provide tap water connections to 21.31 lakh households in 2021-22, 22.53 lakh households in 2022-23 and 18.87 lakh households in 2023-24.

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