New Delhi: To empower the poor and the marginalized section, Rs. 60,000 crore has been allocated to cover 3.8 crore households in 2022-23 under Har Ghar, Nal Se Jal Scheme.

Presenting the Union Budget 2022-23, the Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman said that since 2014, the government’s focus has been on the empowerment of citizens, especially the poor and the marginalized. Measures have included programmes that have provided housing, electricity, cooking gas and access to water. Giving more details, the Finance Minister said that the current coverage of Har Ghar, Nal Se Jal is 8.7 crores, out of which 5.5 crores households were provided tap water in the last two years itself.

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The Government of India has restructured and subsumed the ongoing National Rural Drinking Water Programme(NRDWP) into Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) to provide Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural household i.e., Har Ghar Nal Se Jal (HGNSJ) by 2024.

The following kinds of works/ schemes are proposed to be taken up under JJM: 

i.) In-village water supply (PWS) infrastructure for tap water connection to every household; 
ii.) Reliable drinking water source development/ augmentation of existing sources; 
iii.) Transfer of water (multi-village scheme; where quantity & quality issues are there in the local water sources);
 iv.) Technological intervention for treatment to make water potable (where water quality is an issue, but quantity is sufficient); 
v.) Retrofitting of completed and ongoing piped water supply schemes to provide FHTC and raise the service level; 
vi.) Greywater management;
vii.) Capacity building of various stakeholders and support activities to facilitate the implementation.