The Government has extended the 100% water access to Rural household’s completion date by 2028 with enhanced outlay. The Finance Minister has also located Rs 67000 crores in the budget during 2025-26 for water and sanitation schemes under Jal Jeevan Mission programme which is less than the last year’s BE 2024-25, although higher than RE 2024-25. In 2019, the Government announced the completion of safe and universal rural water access by 2024. As of now there are about 19 crore rural households and about 80% households were given pipe water…
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