Goa becomes first state to achieve 100% 'Har Ghar Jal' certification under Jal Jeevan Mission
Goa has become the first state to achieve 100% 'Har Ghar Jal' certification under the Jal Jeevan Mission of the Jal Shakti Ministry. According to the Ministry, Goa has become the first state in the country to provide 100% tap water connections in rural areas covering
2,63,013 households. Recently, Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh became the first 'Har Ghar Jal' certified district of the country.
The government's Jal Jeevan Mission aims to provide piped water to all rural households by 2024. Even earlier in 2020, this is.what the government had claimed. The Jal Jeevan Mission mandates training of five persons, especially women, in each village to use field test kits to test the water there.