Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India] August 30 (ANI): A overview assembly relating to the progress of ingesting water schemes underneath the Jal Jeevan Mission was held on the Collectorate auditorium in Varanasi on Saturday.
The assembly was chaired by District Magistrate Satyendra Kumar, within the presence of Chief Development Officer Prakhar Kumar Singh, Executive Engineer of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam (Rural), Project Manager of M/s L&T, Assistant Engineers, and different officers involved.
During the overview, District Magistrate Satyendra Kumar directed that 135 ingesting water schemes with 90 to 99 per cent progress have to be accomplished throughout the stipulated September-October 2026 deadline. He additional instructed that 74 schemes with 75 to 90 per cent progress be completed by December 2026, and 64 schemes with 50 to 75 per cent progress by February 2027.
To guarantee targets are met on time, the District Magistrate requested officers to make the required improve in manpower by September 2026. He additionally directed that pending issues on the tehsil degree and points regarding National Highway NOCs be resolved by way of weekly video conferences and month-to-month bodily conferences.
He urged all officers involved to expedite work to make sure the well timed and high quality implementation of the schemes.
Meanwhile, in a major initiative, the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, in collaboration with the Ministry of Rural Development, on August 27 referred to as for the convergence of works of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) 2.0 and Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) SBM-(G) 2.0 underneath the Viksit Bharat: Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Grameen) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025.
This convergence is an initiative in the direction of strengthening rural improvement and built-in planning for rural water safety and resilience.
The VB-G RAM G Act, 2025, identifies water safety as considered one of its 4 thematic focus areas, recognising its significance for sustainable livelihoods, agricultural productiveness, local weather resilience and long-term rural improvement. The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) 2.0, authorised on March 10, locations ingesting water supply sustainability, groundwater recharge and greywater administration on the core of its technique to make sure dependable and resilient rural ingesting water providers, in keeping with a press launch.
As per the discharge, underneath the convergence plan, the States and UTs have been requested to make sure correct built-in planning, prioritise water safety underneath the VGPPs, embrace the official in control of the Rural Water Supply/Public Health Engineering Department within the State-level Steering Committee constituted underneath the Act, nominate devoted nodal officers from the State Water and Sanitation Mission and Rural Development Department, with corresponding nodal officers to facilitate planning, implementation and monitoring of convergent actions, technically align VGPPs with Village Action Plans underneath JJM 2.0 and SBM-G 2.0, register and geo-tag all works underneath JJM 2.0 and SBM-G 2.0 and different convergent belongings on the Viksit Bharat National Rural Infrastructure Stack. (ANI)