Jal Jeevan Mission is a flagship programme of the Government of India, which aims to improve the lives of rural folks by providing safe drinking water through tap connections to every rural household by 2024. Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat wrote a letter to the Chief Minister of Assam expressing his concerns over the slow progress of Jal Jeevan Mission in the State. Against the target of providing tap connections to 12.45 lakh households in the year 2019-20, only 48,852 households were covered. Further, Assam was allocated Rs 694.34 Crore in 2019-20, out of which the State could only spend Rs 392.36 Crore.
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