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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Friday (March 13, 2026) wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his contiguous involution for the merchandise of pending funds to the State nether the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) and support for pending projects nether JJM 2.0 to guarantee drinking h2o proviso to agrarian habitations.
In his letter, Mr. Stalin said Tamil Nadu has consistently been astatine the forefront of providing harmless and assured drinking h2o crossed the State. A transcript of his missive was circulated to the media.
The State, helium said, had made important advancement nether the JJM by providing Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTCs) to 1.12 crore homes (90%) retired of its 1.25 crore agrarian households.
Mr. Stalin welcomed the Union government’s determination to widen and heighten the outlay of the mission. In the archetypal signifier of JJM, the State took up 45 caller Multi-Village Schemes (MVS), 56 retrofitting Combined Water Supply Schemes (CWSS), and 21,258 Single Village Schemes (SVS) astatine a full outgo of ₹18,123 crore. Of these, each the SVS and 92 of the 101 MVS and retrofitting schemes person been completed, portion the remaining 9 MVS are successful precocious stages of implementation, Mr. Stalin said.
Pending funds
However, lone ₹5,914 crore has been released by the Union authorities arsenic its stock nether JJM, leaving a pending equilibrium of ₹3,112 crore. Although ₹2,434 crore was allocated for Tamil Nadu during 2024-25, lone ₹732 crore has been released and nary funds person been received since September 2024, helium pointed out.
To prolong the advancement of works and guarantee timely completion, the Tamil Nadu authorities has already released an beforehand of ₹2,550 crore from State resources to conscionable expenditure for ongoing JJM works, said Mr. Stalin, requesting the Prime Minister’s involution to merchandise the pending equilibrium of ₹3,112 crore to guarantee completion of the schemes.
Hogenekkal scheme
He besides drew the Prime Minister’s attraction to the Hogenekkal Phase-III Combined Water Supply Scheme, projected arsenic an externally aided task with assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The strategy was approved by the State Level Scheme Sanctioning Committee of the Ministry of Jal Shakti connected June 15, 2023, astatine a full outgo of ₹8,428 crore, including a Union authorities JJM stock of ₹2,283 crore.
The State initiated preparatory enactment based connected the assurance of enactment nether JJM. However, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation precocious indicated that Central assistance could not beryllium extended astatine contiguous pending support for the hold of the mission. Withdrawal of enactment to this captious task astatine this signifier would importantly impact prospects for capable drinking h2o proviso successful Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts, the Chief Minister said.
In presumption of the caller determination of the Union authorities to widen the JJM, Mr. Stalin requested that concurrence and fiscal enactment beryllium provided for the Hogenekkal Phase-III CWSS to alteration the State to proceed with the JICA indebtedness agreement.
New MVS sanction
Further, the State had projected 10 caller MVS astatine a full outgo of ₹7,590 crore, covering districts including Dindigul, Namakkal, Tiruchirappalli, Karur, Tiruvallur, Pudukottai, Mayiladuthurai, Tenkasi, Thoothukudi, Tiruppur, and Erode. Considering their important need, helium requested that authorisation beryllium accorded for these caller MVS nether JJM 2.0 to execute afloat saturation of agrarian habitations successful Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Stalin expressed assurance the Union authorities would widen continued enactment to guarantee sustainable and equitable drinking h2o proviso for the agrarian colonisation of Tamil Nadu.
