Since August 2019, Government of India is implementing Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) – Har Ghar Jal, in partnership with States/ UTs including Tamil Nadu, to make provision of safe and adequate tap water supply to every rural household of the country.

As reported by the state of Tamil Nadu, as on 15.08.2019, only 21.76 lakh (17.37%) rural households had tap water connections. Since then, around 89.08 lakh additional rural households have been provided with tap water connections. Thus, as on 13.03.2025, out of 1.25 crore rural households in state, the provision of tap water supply is available to approximately 1.10 crore (88.48%) rural households. The details of fund allocation, fund drawn and reported fund utilization during the last five years (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24) and current financial year 2024-25 (as on 13.03.2025) in respect of Tamil Nadu are as under:

 

(Amount in Rs. Crore)

Year	Central					Expenditure under State share
	Opening Balance	Allocation	Fund Drawn	Available Fund	Reported utilization
2019-20	1.49	373.87	373.10	378.67	114.58	99.14
2020-21	264.09	921.99	690.36	954.45	576.87	399.57
2021-22	377.58	3,691.21	614.35	991.93	457.63	496.16
2022-23	534.30	4,015.00	872.96	1,407.26	593.71	664.36
2023-24	813.55	3,615.56	2,617.10	3,430.65	2,617.49	2,612.30
2024-25*	813.15	2,438.89	731.67	1,544.82	1,297.67	1,452.63

Source: JJM-IMIS                                                                                          *as on 13.03.2025

As reported by Tamil Nadu, the state has faced several challenges in implementation of JJM which includes absence of perennial rivers, presence of extensive hard rock strata with less ground water sources and 57% of the blocks falling under over-exploited, critical and semi-critical categories. To address these challenges and for sustainable water supply, the state government plans to connect every village in the state through a Combined Water Supply Scheme (CWSS) / Multi Village Schemes (MVS) with river and dam-based sources. In addition, regular review meetings are being conducted by state officials with the field engineers and contractors to speed up the progress of works under JJM.    

As informed by the state government of Tamil Nadu, following measures are being taken to ensure long-term sustainability of rural water supply systems, especially in terms of maintenance and quality monitoring:

• Performance based operations and maintenance (O&M) contract is implemented to ensure proper maintenance and supply of earmarked quantity of water upto tail end habitations. As per the performance-based contract, maintenance of CWSS including chemicals, attending the leaks, bursts and ensuring the supply of earmarked quantity to be beneficiaries will be responsibility of the contractor.
• To ensure quality monitoring, TWAD PMS software is used for O&M schemes in which details such as daily pumping quantity, beneficiary wise supply, leaks and bursts, etc., are being reported and monitored at the highest level.
• The O&M monitoring cell has been established at the Head Office of TWAD Board to collect feedback from five randomly selected village panchayats each day, in order to ascertain the field reality in maintenance of water supply schemes.
• An Emergency Information Response Centre (EIRC) is constituted at the TWAD Board, Head office to receive any complaints related to Bulk Water supply.
• Single village schemes and in-village components of Multi Village Schemes are maintained by the village panchayats / VWSC concerned with the technical guidance from RD&PR Department.
• One candidate per village panchayat are being trained under Nal Jal Mitra Multi skilling programme so as to maintain the SVS / in-village components by the VPs.

 

Further, as reported by state of Tamil Nadu on JJM-IMIS, there are 113 drinking water quality testing laboratories in the state to encourage water quality testing to ensure potable drinking water supply. Also, to empower the communities to monitor the water quality, States/ UTs have also been advised to identify and train 5 persons, preferably women, in every village to conduct water quality. So far, the state of Tamil Nadu has trained 62,898 women for FTK testing.

This information was provided by THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI, SHRI V. SOMANNA in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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Dhanya Sanal K

Director

(Rajya Sabha US Q1840)

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