Policy Briefs & Reports

Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) rural drinking water programme to provide functional tap connections to every household for drinking, cooking, and other domestic needs on a sustainable basis by 2024. It subsumes the previous National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP).

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, this brief uses government data to report on:
■ GoI allocations, releases, and expenditures; and
■ Progress on coverage and
components of JJM.