(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Ensuring Water Security

Topic: Ensuring Water Security

Guest:

Parameswaran Iyer, (Secretary, Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, GoI)
Dr. Syamal Kumar Sarkar, (Senior Director, Natural Resource & Climate Change, TERI)
Urmi Goswami, (Assistant Editor, Economic Times)

Topic Description:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently released the operational guidelines of Jal Jeevan Mission which is centre govt's initiative to provide Functional Household Tap Connections to every rural household by 2024. Out of 17.87 crore rural households in the country about 14.6 crore which accounts for 81.67 percent are yet to have household tap connections for water. The Jal Jeevan Scheme will be implemented through institutional mechanism at four levels - national, state, district and gram panchayat or its sub committees. Women will play a bigger role in this scheme and the paani samitis or the user group will decide about the user fee for sustainability of the scheme.