Under erstwhile National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP), now subsumed under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), the coverage was monitored in terms of habitations having provision of minimum 40 litre per capita per day (lpcd) of potable drinking water with sources at a reasonable distance. As reported by States/ UTs, as on 15.03.2020, 81.76% rural habitations having 77.54% population have provision of minimum 40 litre per capita per day (lpcd) of potable drinking water and 15.32% rural habitations having 19.23% population have service level of less than 40 lpcd potable water, whereas 2.91% rural habitations having 3.24% population with water sources having quality issues. 

     Government of India (GoI) supplements the effort of States/ UTs for providing potable water in rural areas by providing financial and technical assistance.A number of steps have been taken by GoI which inter-alia includes:

i.)    In last three years for this purpose, an amount of Rs. 18,309.55 Crore has been made available to States;
ii.)    Since 2014, to improve piped water supply in low income States viz. Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, with the assistance of World Bank, this Department has been implementing Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project-Low Income States (RWSSP-LIS). An amount of Rs. 1,375.35 Crore has been released to these States so far for this project;
iii.)    In 2016,  for installation of community water purification plants & commissioning of pipe water supply schemes in Arsenic/ Fluoride affected States, an amount of Rs.1,000 Crore has been released;
iv.)    In 2017, to give focussed attention to provide safe drinking water to 27,544 identified Arsenic and Fluoride affected rural habitations, National Water Quality Sub-Mission (NWQSM) was launched and so far an amount of Rs. 3,940.34 Crore has been released;
v.)    For Japanese Encephalitis/ Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (JE/ AES) affected 60 priority districts of the States of Assam, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal as part of the NRDWP (now JJM) and an amount of Rs. 369 Crore has been released in the last three years;
vi.)    In 2018, for implementation in all the Aspirational districts in 28 States, Swajal, a community-driven, single village, solar powered, mini-piped water supply scheme was launched;
vii.)    During the current year 2019-20, Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA), a time-bound, mission-mode water conservation campaign was also launched in 256 water stressed districts across the country with aim to promote water conservation and water resource management by focusing on accelerated implementation of five target interventions, viz., water conservation & rain water harvesting, renovation of traditional and other water bodies/ tanks, reuse and recharge of bore wells, watershed development and intensive afforestation;
viii.)    To meet the domestic needs of every rural household in future, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has been launched in August, 2019 which aims at providing potable water through Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) at service level of 55 litre per capita per day (lpcd) by 2024 with an outlay of Rs.3.60 lakh Crore, in partnerships with States. During current year, an amount of Rs. 9,542.89 Crore has been released.

     This information was given by the Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti & Social Justice and Empowerment, Shri Rattan Lal Kataria in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.    

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