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ATLA THARUN TEJAAIR 123· 2025

Question Q.17GS2GS2

Safely managed drinking water services, as desired by Jal Jeevan Mission, are designated to give multifarious benefits cutting across generations. Discuss. Also, elaborate upon the challenges in ensuring the mission's success.

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Jal Jeevan Mission aimed at giving drinking water capacity to all houses in rural and urban areas by 2024. Benefits across generations: 1) Health: - Improve safe water availability (Reduce cholera, typhoid) - Avoid water poisoning by uranium and harmful metals to be drunk Fluorosis - Healthy children born (Demographic dividend) 2) Economic: - Lesser time spent for water support (SKMs on avg walked by water for clean water) => Productivity - Funds for panchayats by taxes

3Political: - Bridging rural-urban divide - Improved public service delivery - Public trust in democracy Challenges: 1) Water being a state subject under Schedule 3 2) Coordination between states and center issues 3) Non-availability of water resources near villages and high cost of pipelines 4) Leakages of funds and cost overruns at projects 5) Poor filtering infrastructure and polling of waterbodies and ground water

Integrated Water Shed management approach. Making IJJM success through: - Participatory undertaking in gram panchayat (for data) - Bottom up planning with APP - Coordination between state and center (A-2c3, A-2c2 River-based and interstate water disputes act) Ministry of Jal Shakti IJJM has potential to bring rural areas into sustainable development by SDG-2a (Road governance) and SDG-7.

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Ministry of Jal Shakti IJJM has potential to bring rural areas into sustainable development by SDG-2a (Road governance) and SDG-7.

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ATLA THARUN TEJA

AIR 1232025

Subject & Paper

GS2GS2

Topic

Government Policies and Interventions - Design, Implementation and Issues

Government Schemes and Policies

Jal Jeevan Mission

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