{"id":228131,"date":"2023-02-22T20:30:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228131"},"modified":"2023-02-22T20:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:00:14","slug":"turn-off-the-tap-of-urban-bias-in-rural-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/turn-off-the-tap-of-urban-bias-in-rural-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn off the tap of urban bias in rural development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u202f\u201cTurn off the tap of urban bias in rural development<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu<\/strong> on\u202f22nd<\/sup> February 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>reasons behind increasing urban rural disparity<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The article discusses the increasing urban and rural disparity and the performance of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n

What are the reasons behind increasing urban rural disparity?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Biased Policies:<\/strong> The disparity has increased due to bias policies made by government and institutions for urban areas.<\/p>\n

Spill-over effect<\/strong>: It refers to the development of rural areas which is dependent on larger urban areas.<\/p>\n

Hence, rural areas which are far away from the urban areas not only suffer from a lack of development but also keep falling behind rural areas which are closer to the urban areas.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) was launched by the government to reduce the disparity amongst the rural urban areas in access to tap water.<\/p>\n

What is JJM?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Click Here to Read<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The safe drinking water under JJM will a)<\/strong> improve health and nutrition and b)<\/strong> reduce the workload of women and girl children while ensuring their safety.<\/p>\n

Further, \u201cavailability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all\u201d is the sixth goal in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations to be achieved by 2030.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the progress of JJM in ensuring safe tap water in rural areas of Tamil Nadu has also been influenced by urban factors.<\/p>\n

What has been the performance of JJM in Tamil Nadu?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The data for 2022 reveal that there has been variation in the district wise coverage of tap water in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n

For example,<\/strong> rural households in Kanchipuram, Ranipet, Vellore have better coverage of JJM, while rural households in Dharmapuri, Kallakurichi, Nagappatinam districts have not enough tap water connections.<\/p>\n

It was found that the progress of JJM was better in those districts that have better percentage of urban population<\/strong> and districts with low urban population percentages were lagging in the implementation of the JJM.<\/p>\n

Hence, it shows that urban rural bias exists even in accessing the basic facilities like tap water.<\/p>\n

What can be the course of action?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The government must take additional measures to prioritise the implementation of the JJM scheme in districts with a high rural population in order to reach the goal of JJM.<\/p>\n

This will not only help to correct urban bias but also meet the SDG goal with regard to tapping water connections by 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u202f\u201cTurn off the tap of urban bias in rural development\u201d published in The Hindu on\u202f22nd February 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance Relevance: reasons behind increasing urban rural disparity News: The article discusses the increasing urban and rural disparity and the performance of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in… Continue reading Turn off the tap of urban bias in rural development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-228131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704924550},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}