The Kerala government has pumped in ₹327.76 crore more as its share for Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), but data show that the State has a long way to go before it achieves the target for the Centrally assisted rural household tap connection scheme.
The latest allocation for the scheme takes the total State government funding in the past two years to ₹2,824 crore, according to Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal. The government had sanctioned ₹1,616 crore the previous year and ₹880 crore in two installments earlier this year.
The JJM aims at providing functional household tap connections (FHTC) to all rural homes in the country by 2024.
