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Jal Jeevan Mission in UP: Few Taps In Banda, Taps But Not Enough Water in Baghpat -Shreehari Paliath,Geeta Devi and Meera Devi

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More than 50% of rural households are reported to have functional household tapwater connections under the Jal Jeevan Mission. But does this translate into availability of water for the rural poor?

Banda, Baghpat and Bengaluru: "We drink whatever quality water we can get," says Munni Devi, a Dalit worker who lives in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh (UP). "Of course we get sick, but we don't have any other choice. We are poor."

On August 15, 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government announced the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) to provide a functional household tap connection (FHTC) to every rural household by 2024, thus ensuring potable drinking water for all.

"Mothers and sisters have to travel 2, 3, 5 km carrying the load of water on their heads. A large part of their lives is spent in struggling for water," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech in 2019. "The central and the state governments will jointly work on this 'Jal-Jeevan' Mission. We have promised to spend more than Rs 3.5 lakh crores on this mission in the coming years."

For Munni Devi, despite the government's ambitious programme, the drudgery of accessing clean drinking water continues. The 40-year-old, living in UP's backward Bundelkhand region, spends a few hours daily dealing with the uncertainties of collecting clean water, she said in April 2022, when Khabar Lahariya visited her village. Five months since, little has changed.

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