Achieving goal below Jal Jeevan mission inside 2024 is unattainable activity for West Bengal, says officers

Express News Service

KOLKATA: Because of West Bengal’s poor efficiency in comparison with its counterparts, Jal Jeevan Mission, a undertaking below the Ministry of Jal Shakti which targets to attach over 19 crore rural households with faucet connection and water provide earlier than subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections appears to be an uphill activity to finish.

Despite funds being disbursed in line with demand, three states, West Bengal Jharkhand, and Rajasthan, are but to convey half of the focused households below the undertaking casting a shadow on the 2024 Lok Sabha deadline. The middle and the state are bearing the expenditure on a 50:50 foundation.

On August 15, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the undertaking of three,60,000 crore with the slogan Har Ghar Jal (water at each home) and it was determined that 19.22 crore rural households throughout the nation could be offered faucet connection. At the time of the launch of the scheme, 3.23 lakh rural households out of 19.22 crore had been supplied with faucet connections and water companies.

The undertaking’s deadline gave the impression to be aimed toward securing electoral dividends within the subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections.

Records accessible with the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the Bengal authorities assessed greater than 1.73 crore rural households to be introduced below the mission, and up to now, 64.84 lakh households have been introduced below the scheme, which is 37.39 % of the entire goal.

Pulak Roy, Public Health and Engineering (PHE) minister of West Bengal, on Wednesday, stated within the Assembly that inside March 2024, water connection and provide can be accessible in any respect focused households. But sources within the state administration stated attaining the purpose could be an unattainable activity.

“The state government had joined the central project late. Besides, the state government renamed the scheme in Bengal as Jolswapno which resulted in complications between the Centre and the state. It is a fact that the Centre is not releasing funds under several social schemes, but we are getting funds under the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme. But meeting the deadline is a very difficult task,” stated an official of the PHE.  

The TMC leaders worry the Prime Minister could maintain non-BJP dominated states like Rajasthan, Jharkhand, and West Bengal answerable for not attaining the goal earlier than the deadline when he’ll marketing campaign in subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections. “But BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are yet to bring 60 percent of the targeted households,” stated a TMC chief.

Jal Jeevan Mission

Target throughout India: Connecting 19.22 crore rural households with piped consuming water.

Achievement: 12.92 crore(67%)

In West Bengal

Target: 1,73,42,083

Target achieved: 64,84,693 households (37.39%)

Target achieved in Jharkhand: 40%

Target achieved in Rajasthan: 43%

100% goal achieved: Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Telangana.

KOLKATA: Because of West Bengal’s poor efficiency in comparison with its counterparts, Jal Jeevan Mission, a undertaking below the Ministry of Jal Shakti which targets to attach over 19 crore rural households with faucet connection and water provide earlier than subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections appears to be an uphill activity to finish.

Despite funds being disbursed in line with demand, three states, West Bengal Jharkhand, and Rajasthan, are but to convey half of the focused households below the undertaking casting a shadow on the 2024 Lok Sabha deadline. The middle and the state are bearing the expenditure on a 50:50 foundation.

On August 15, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the undertaking of three,60,000 crore with the slogan Har Ghar Jal (water at each home) and it was determined that 19.22 crore rural households throughout the nation could be offered faucet connection. At the time of the launch of the scheme, 3.23 lakh rural households out of 19.22 crore had been supplied with faucet connections and water companies.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The undertaking’s deadline gave the impression to be aimed toward securing electoral dividends within the subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections.

Records accessible with the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the Bengal authorities assessed greater than 1.73 crore rural households to be introduced below the mission, and up to now, 64.84 lakh households have been introduced below the scheme, which is 37.39 % of the entire goal.

Pulak Roy, Public Health and Engineering (PHE) minister of West Bengal, on Wednesday, stated within the Assembly that inside March 2024, water connection and provide can be accessible in any respect focused households. But sources within the state administration stated attaining the purpose could be an unattainable activity.

“The state government had joined the central project late. Besides, the state government renamed the scheme in Bengal as Jolswapno which resulted in complications between the Centre and the state. It is a fact that the Centre is not releasing funds under several social schemes, but we are getting funds under the Jal Jeevan Mission scheme. But meeting the deadline is a very difficult task,” stated an official of the PHE.  

The TMC leaders worry the Prime Minister could maintain non-BJP dominated states like Rajasthan, Jharkhand, and West Bengal answerable for not attaining the goal earlier than the deadline when he’ll marketing campaign in subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections. “But BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are yet to bring 60 percent of the targeted households,” stated a TMC chief.

Jal Jeevan Mission

Target throughout India: Connecting 19.22 crore rural households with piped consuming water.

Achievement: 12.92 crore(67%)

In West Bengal

Target: 1,73,42,083

Target achieved: 64,84,693 households (37.39%)

Target achieved in Jharkhand: 40%

Target achieved in Rajasthan: 43%

100% goal achieved: Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, and Telangana.