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.

Jal Jeevan Mission plans to make household drinking water connection available to every village and family of India by 2024. As per the goals of JJM, government plans to build a infrastructure of storage, transport, purification and monitoring of water supply in all part of India. Water is essential head of health and livelihood and rural India still largely die due to the routine and safe availability of drinking water. Benefits of JJM (1) Reduce hardships of rural women who

on average spend to minutes everyday in search of water. (2) Gender empowerment as they can use the time for skill development and other functions (3) Improved health indicators - safe and hygienic water will result in decrease on incidence of waterborne diseases amongst rural population. Also decrease diarrhea which is a major cause of mortality in infants in rural areas (4) Availability of water at school and other public places will improve sanitation and hygiene in common places which will lead to improvement in overall quality of life. (5) Continue development of children as they will have safe and assured access to drinking water and sanitation improving their health indicators and learning outcomes

Challenges to JJM (1) Slow pace of implementation 100%. Unless project moved from 2022 to 2024 due to slow pace (2) Water scarcity in many areas of the country due to lack of water resource development and drought. (3) Maintenance issues for pipelines, pumping stations and purification plants. (4) Absence of mechanism for water quality monitoring and control (5) Lack of funds from the states for the implementation of the scheme.