The CPHEEO is a corporation below the Union Ministry of Housing and City Affairs.

“Primarily based on its suggestions, NJJM will suggest price rationalization or apportionment to the State-level Apex Committees for concurrence previous to launch of funds,” the Jal Shakti ministry conveyed to the states.

The ministry’s transfer is critical as there have been 750 JJM initiatives costing Rs 100 crore and above. Of those, 67 initiatives price over Rs 1,000 crore every.

The Centre has additionally knowledgeable the states that no Central help shall be offered for retrofitting schemes. Any pending liabilities below such schemes are to be met from the state authorities’s monetary assets, the ministry informed the states.

On Tuesday (March 10), the Union Cupboard had accredited a further allocation of Rs 1.51 lakh crore for the JJM until 2028.

The scheme will now have an general outlay of Rs 8.70 lakh crore until 2028. Of this quantity, the Centre’s outlay will now be Rs 3.59 lakh crore, together with Rs 2.08 lakh crore allotted in 2019.

The Centre has laid down 4 situations that states should meet to obtain funds, placing safeguards amid considerations over irregularities within the implementation of the JJM.

“The discharge of central funds below JJM 2.0 might be strictly conditional upon States/UTs assembly 4 necessary compliance necessities. These embrace: signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU); creation of Sujal Gaon IDs to make sure full digital mapping of all rural water provide schemes; well timed monetary reconciliation, and notification of State operation & upkeep (O&M) insurance policies,” stated an official.

Until Friday, eight states, together with Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Gujarat, have signed the MoU.

Launched in August 2019, JJM aimed to ship 55 litres per capita per day (lpcd) consuming water to all rural households within the nation by 2024. On Might 21, 2025, The Indian Categorical revealed the findings of its investigation of information uploaded by states and Union Territories on the JJM dashboard, exhibiting how modifications to the Mission’s tips led to extra prices totalling Rs 16,839 crore – a rise of 14.58 per cent from their estimated price.