Union Cupboard approves Jal Jeevan Mission extension till 2028 with Rs 1.51 Lakh Crore Allocation

Sitharaman, in her Funds final yr, allotted Rs 67,000 for JJM for the present monetary yr (2025-26), however this was revised downward to Rs 17,000 crore within the revised estimates (RE). The sources say that this quantity, too, stays unspent, because the approval got here within the final month of the monetary yr.

Launched in August 2019, the JJM aimed to supply Practical Family Faucet Connections (FHTC) to ship 55 litres per capita per day (lpcd) consuming water to all rural households within the nation by 2024.

Marred with irregularities and corruption, JJM noticed a sequence of actions throughout fiscal yr 2025-26. In Might final yr, the Centre despatched over 100 groups of officers for a floor inspection of the JJM works. Prime Minister Narendra Modi directed the Jal Shakti Ministry officers to take motion in opposition to those that have dedicated irregularities in JJM and to not spare anybody.

On November 10, 2025, The Indian Categorical reported that motion has been taken in opposition to at the least 596 officers, 822 contractors and 152 Third Occasion Inspection Companies (TPIAs) throughout 15 states and Union Territories following complaints acquired about monetary irregularities and poor high quality of labor beneath the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission for supplying consuming water by way of particular person faucet connections to rural households.

On Might 21, 2025, The Indian Categorical revealed the findings of its investigation into knowledge uploaded by states and Union Territories on the JJM dashboard, exhibiting how adjustments to the Mission’s tips three years in the past lifted a vital expenditure examine and led to price escalations.

The Categorical investigation discovered that this resulted in extra prices totalling Rs 16,839 crore for 14,586 schemes, a rise of 14.58 per cent from their estimated price.