Government of India has restructured and subsumed the ongoing National Rural Drinking Water Programme(NRDWP) into Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) to provide Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural household i.e., Har Ghar Jal by 2024. Jal Jeevan Mission aims to provide Functional House Connection to every rural household with a minimum water supply service standard of 55 LPCD. The broad objectives of the Mission are:

1. To provide FHTC to every rural household;
2. To prioritize provision of FHTCs in quality affected areas, villages in drought prone and desert areas, Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) villages, etc.;
3. To provide functional tap connection to Schools, Anganwadi centres, GP buildings, Health centres, wellness centres and community buildings;
4. To monitor functionality of tap connections;
5. To promote and ensure voluntary ownership among local community by way of contribution in cash, kind and/ or labour and voluntary labour (shramdaan);
6. To assist in ensuring sustainability of water supply system, i.e. water source, water supply infrastructure, and funds for regular O&M;
7. To empower and develop human resource in the sector such that the demands of construction, plumbing, electrical, water quality management, water treatment, catchment protection, O&M, etc. are taken care of in short and long term; and
8. To bring awareness on various aspects and significance of safe drinking water and involvement of stakeholders in manner that make water everyone's business.

The following kinds of works/ schemes are proposed to be taken up under JJM:

1. Development of in-village piped water supply infrastructure to provide tap water connection to every rural household;
2. Development of reliable drinking water sources and/ or augmentation of existing
3. Sources to provide long-term sustainability of water supply system;
4. Wherever necessary, bulk water transfer, treatment plants and distribution network to cater to every rural household;
5. Technological interventions for removal of contaminants where water quality is an issue;
6. Retrofitting of completed and ongoing schemes to provide FHTCs at minimum service level of 55 LPCD;
7. Grey water management;

Jal Jeevan Mission Scheme Cycle: Ordinarily, in-village water supply infrastructure development may take 12 to 18 months. The same can be divided into following three phases:

1. Planning and mobilization phase;
2. Implementation phase;
3. Post-implementation phase.