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The State Cabinet has cleared a Kerala Water Authority (KWA) connection for availing ₹4,000 crore much arsenic indebtedness from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for completing agrarian h2o proviso works nether the Centrally-assisted Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).
The Cabinet besides decided to grant JJM works worthy ₹153.37 crore connected the information that the State would conscionable their disbursal if the Central stock was not issued connected time. They see 4 works successful Thiruvananthapuram district, 3 successful Ernakulam territory and 1 each successful Pathanamthitta, Malappuram and Idukki districts.
The clearance was fixed astatine the Cabinet gathering held connected Saturday (March 14, 2026).
This magnitude constitutes the 2nd instalment of a ₹9,000-crore indebtedness assistance that is being secured nether the NABARD Infrastructure Development Assistance (NIDA) strategy for the mission. The KWA had already availed a indebtedness of ₹5,000 crore nether it. The national-level JJM has the extremity of providing piped h2o proviso to each agrarian household successful India. In Kerala, authorisation was accorded for projects amounting to ₹44,714.78 crore. The outgo is being shared astatine a 50:50 ratio by the Union and the State governments.
The Kerala government, faced with a money crunch, had agreed to a KWA connection to avail a indebtedness arsenic the State had to pump successful ₹12,532.02 crore for completing the equilibrium works nether the mission. The Centre had extended the deadline to 2028, a measurement that had brought alleviation to Kerala wherever the works had been delayed.
In the substance of task implementation, Kerala continues to languish astatine the bottommost of the database with implementation astatine 54.89%, the lowest successful the country.
