Jal Jeevan Mission to revive urban water bodies
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The urban water supply mission announced in the Budget on Monday would come with rejuvenation of water bodies in addition to 20% of provide from reused water, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry mentioned on Tuesday.
In a press release, the Ministry mentioned there was an estimated hole of two.68 crore urban family faucet connections that the Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) [JJMU] would search to bridge in all 4,378 statutory cities. The Mission would additionally goal to bridge the hole of two.64 crore sewer connections within the 500 cities beneath the prevailing Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).
The mission would come with rejuvenation of water bodies to increase the sustainable freshwater provide and creation of inexperienced areas.
“JJM(U) will promote circular economy of water through development of city water balance plan for each city focusing on recycle/reuse of treated sewage, rejuvenation of water bodies and water conservation,” it mentioned.
The Ministry mentioned 20% of the water demand could be met with reused water. The whole expenditure on the mission could be ₹2.87 lakh crore over 5 years.
The Ministry mentioned the MetroNeo and MetroLite applied sciences, that are cheaper than typical Metros, talked about within the Budget had been already being thought of.
“Some of the Tier-2 cities like Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Jammu, Srinagar, Rajkot, Baroda, Dehradun, Coimbatore, Bhiwadi-Daruhera etc. are making proposals under MetroLite/MetroNeo and Nashik has already sent a proposal for MetroNeo, which is under consideration,” the assertion mentioned.
Apart from the Budget bulletins, the Ministry mentioned there had been a rise within the funds allotted to urban native bodies (ULBs) as per the fifteenth Finance Commission’s report. There had been a 78% enhance, from ₹87,143 crore within the 14th Finance Commission interval to ₹1,55,628 crore within the fifteenth Finance Commission’s interval, it mentioned.
