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The Centre’s marquee Jal Jeevan Mission programme, which aims to supply potable h2o to each agrarian household, has been allotted ₹67,600 crore for Financial Year 2026-27, incrementally much than the ₹67,000 crore allocated successful the erstwhile year’s Budget for FY 2025-26.
Despite the important allocation past year, the Jal Shakti Ministry, according to the Union Budget documents, expects to walk lone astir ₹17,000 crore erstwhile this fiscal twelvemonth ends connected March 31, 2026. Allocations reportedly dipped aft gross irregularities successful the medication of the strategy surfaced from assorted States.
Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Gujarat, Assam, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan person reported important enactment successful imposing the punishment and betterment process successful cases of fiscal irregularities, and mediocre prime of works nether the Jal Jeevan Mission.
Uttar Pradesh has reported that it initiated enquiries successful 14,264 complaints received from assorted channels.
The Gujarat authorities reported that a fiscal nonaccomplishment of ₹120.65 crore had occurred owed to irregularities successful 620 villages of Mahisagar district, and orders had been issued for betterment from 112 implementing agencies, according to a connection successful the Lok Sabha successful December 2025 by C.R. Patil, the Jal Shakti Minister.
Union Budget 2026-27 documents
According to information reported by 32 States and Union Territories, enactment was taken against 621 departmental officials, 969 contractors, and 153 3rd enactment inspection agencies successful cases of fiscal irregularities and mediocre prime of works nether the Jal Jeevan Mission, the Ministry of Jal Shakti had said successful a connection successful December 2025.
At the commencement of the Jal Jeevan Mission successful August 2019, lone 3.23 crore (16.7%) agrarian households were reported to person pat h2o connections. So far, arsenic reported by the States and Union Territories arsenic connected December 11, 2025, astir 12.52 crore further agrarian households person been provided with pat h2o connections nether the Jal Jeevan Mission, bringing a small implicit ₹15.76 crore or 81.4% of India’s agrarian households nether the ambit of the scheme.
