The story so far: The Centre announced on June 7 that over 50 per cent of rural households have access to tap water supply, just as the Modi government completes eight years in power.
Under its Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), the Centre aims to provide safe drinking water through individual household tap connections to all households in rural India by 2024. As per the JJM dashboard, around 9.65 crore households (50.38 per cent) have tap water connections across the nation as of June 10, 2022.
At the State level , Goa, Telangana and Haryana have achieved 100-per-cent tap connectivity to all households in the State. Union territories like Puducherry, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu have also provided 100 per cent of their households with tap water connections.
