{"id":80184,"date":"2021-02-03T18:09:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=80184"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:35:32","slug":"jal-jeevan-mission-to-revive-urban-water-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jal-jeevan-mission-to-revive-urban-water-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jal Jeevan Mission&#8221; to revive urban water bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Budget 2021-22, the Government has announced the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jal-jeevan-mission-launches-innovation-challenge-for-portable-water-testing-devices\/\">Jal Jeevan Mission<\/a>(Urban).<\/p>\n<p><strong>About <\/strong><strong>Jal Jeevan Mission(Urban):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nodal Ministry: <\/strong>Ministry of Housing &amp; Urban Affairs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective: <\/strong>To provide universal coverage of water supply to all households in all 4,378 statutory towns, through functional taps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duration: <\/strong>The duration of the mission is over five years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features of the Jal Jeevan Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will rejuvenate the water bodies to facilitate sustainable fresh water supply and the creation of green spaces.<\/li>\n<li>It will promote a <strong>circular economy of water<\/strong> through the development of city water balance plan in each city. The plan will focus on recycling\/reuse of treated sewage water and water conservation. 20% of water demand is to be met by reused water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Awareness Campaign: <\/strong>Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) campaign is proposed. It will spread awareness among the masses about the conservation of water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pey Jal Survekshan <\/strong>will be conducted in cities. It will ascertain the equitable distribution of water, reuse of wastewater, and mapping of water bodies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technology Submission For water<\/strong>: It is proposed to leverage the latest global technologies in the field of water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PPP Model: T<\/strong>he mission has mandated that cities having a million-plus population will take up PPP projects. These projects shall constitute a minimum of 10% of their total project fund allocation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For Union Territories,<\/strong> there will be 100% central funding.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For North Eastern and Hill States,<\/strong> central funding for projects will be 90%.<\/li>\n<li>Central funding will be 50% for cities with less than 1 lakh population, one-third for cities with 1 lakh to 10 lakh population, and 25% for cities with the million plus population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GEG881N13.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? In the Budget 2021-22, the Government has announced the launch of Jal Jeevan Mission(Urban). About Jal Jeevan Mission(Urban): Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Housing &amp; Urban Affairs Objective: To provide universal coverage of water supply to all households in all 4,378 statutory towns, through functional taps. Duration: The duration of the mission&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jal-jeevan-mission-to-revive-urban-water-bodies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Jal Jeevan Mission&#8221; to revive urban water bodies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9,959],"tags":[1412],"class_list":["post-80184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","category-schemes","tag-soty_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777853,"cached_date":1704915424},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80184","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}