<p>A total of 3.04 crore rural households provided with piped water connections under the National Jal Jeevan Mission, since the launch of the scheme which was announced on August 15, 2019.</p>.<p>Jal Jeevan Mission, Centrally funded scheme, aims to provide 55 litres of potable water per person per day to every rural household of the country by 2024.</p>.<p>Goa is the first state to provide 100% piped connection. So far, 27 districts, 458 blocks, 33,516 gram panchayats, 66,210 villages were declared to have provided piped water.</p>.<p>At present, Telangana, Gujarat, Haryana, UT of Puducherry are close to achieving 100% coverage. While Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Mizoram, UT of Andaman and Nicobar made good progress in terms of increasing the coverage.</p>.<p>To strengthen water testing facilities, the state is in process of getting 14 water quality testing laboratories accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).</p>.<p>Jal Jeevan Mission mandates training five persons in every village, especially women, in using field test kits so that water can be tested there.</p>.<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently written to all sarpanches and gram pradhans and sought their help for effective implementation of the Centrally sponsored scheme.</p>
<p>A total of 3.04 crore rural households provided with piped water connections under the National Jal Jeevan Mission, since the launch of the scheme which was announced on August 15, 2019.</p>.<p>Jal Jeevan Mission, Centrally funded scheme, aims to provide 55 litres of potable water per person per day to every rural household of the country by 2024.</p>.<p>Goa is the first state to provide 100% piped connection. So far, 27 districts, 458 blocks, 33,516 gram panchayats, 66,210 villages were declared to have provided piped water.</p>.<p>At present, Telangana, Gujarat, Haryana, UT of Puducherry are close to achieving 100% coverage. While Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Mizoram, UT of Andaman and Nicobar made good progress in terms of increasing the coverage.</p>.<p>To strengthen water testing facilities, the state is in process of getting 14 water quality testing laboratories accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL).</p>.<p>Jal Jeevan Mission mandates training five persons in every village, especially women, in using field test kits so that water can be tested there.</p>.<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently written to all sarpanches and gram pradhans and sought their help for effective implementation of the Centrally sponsored scheme.</p>
