Jal Hi AMRIT Programme:
The Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs said that the government has introduced the Jal Hi AMRIT scheme in its first 100 days.
- Jal Hi AMRIT Programme was launched under the AMRUT 2.0 scheme.
- Under this initiative, it is envisaged to incentivise State & UTs to manage the used water (sewage) treatment plants (UWTPs/ STPs) efficiently to ensure recyclable good quality treated water, meeting environmental standards, on a sustained basis.
- The purpose of the exercise is to build competition among the cities, develop capacities and incentivise them to attain the best quality of used treated water at the treatment facilities.
- The main focus is thus on capacity building & incentivizing qualitative improvements in the treated discharge effluent.
- A mid-course assessment and water quality testing will be conducted, culminating in a final assessment & award of Clean Water Credits in terms of a Star-rating (between 3 stars to 5 stars) certificate valid for six months.
AMRUT 2.0 scheme:
- It was launched for a period of five years, from the financial year 2021-22 to the financial year 2025-26.
- It is designed to provide universal coverage of water supply through functional taps to all households in all the statutory towns in the country and coverage of sewerage/septage management in 500 cities covered in the first phase of the AMRUT scheme.
