Rural tap water connections rose from 17% to 82% since launch of Jal Jeevan Mission: President

President Droupadi Murmu connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026) said that a whopping 82% of agrarian households present person pat h2o connections, against 17% successful 2019 erstwhile the Jal Jeevan Mission was launched.

Addressing the Jal Mahotsav programme, the President said h2o is not simply a basal installation successful India but is profoundly connected to the country’s culture, traditions, livelihoods and assemblage life.

“It is simply a substance of large restitution that presently astir 82% of agrarian households person entree to pat water, whereas successful 2019, erstwhile the Jal Jeevan Mission was launched, this fig was lone 17%. For this bonzer success, I congratulate Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil and his full team,” she said.

“Water is the ground of life. In our traditions, h2o has been revered arsenic a remedy for galore ailments. In our nationalist opus Vande Mataram — whose 150th day of creation we are commemorating — the precise archetypal connection is ‘Sujalam’, which means ‘abundant successful bully h2o resources’. Thus, successful India, h2o has ne'er been simply a basal facility; it is profoundly connected with our culture, traditions, livelihoods and assemblage life,” she added.

Pointing retired that earlier agrarian households had to conflict for entree to drinking h2o and that women and children often had to question agelong distances to fetch it, President Murmu said that today, cleanable and harmless h2o reaches homes, reflecting the occurrence of the Jal Jeevan Mission.

The President besides emphasised the relation of exertion successful improving h2o governance, noting that platforms specified arsenic the Sujalam Bharat App, real-time dashboards and determination enactment systems are ensuring transparent monitoring and effectual planning.

“At the aforesaid time, integer platforms specified arsenic the Meri Panchayat App and Panchayat Dashboard are providing accusation astir h2o services astatine the gram panchayat level. This is expanding assemblage information and strengthening transparency and accountability successful h2o proviso systems,” she added.

Ms. Murmu further said that solutions are besides being explored for those incapable to entree integer platforms for assorted reasons.

For the conservation of h2o resources, information of each sections of nine is indispensable on with method management, she said.

Stating that Wednesday (March 11, 2026) was World Plumbing Day, the President said that she appreciated the contributions of each plumbers and technicians successful ensuring h2o health, sanitation and h2o supply.

“Water conservation is the work of each of us. We should not presumption h2o simply arsenic a assets for usage but arsenic a precious practice for aboriginal generations. If determination is water, determination is simply a future,” she said.