Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh amongst top ranked district of the country on the Jal Jeevan Mission

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Several districts of Uttar Pradesh have performed very well in the October month 2022 ranking of the Jal Jeevan Mission released by the Union Jal Shakti Ministry on its web site. The districts are ranked according to the target achieved by the districts in providing drinking water through tap to the houses of the identified beneficiaries in the rural areas.

Giving this information Principal secretary (Namami Gange and rural water supply) Anurag Srivastava said that several Uttar Pradesh districts have done well in the rankings, especially Shahjahanpur that has topped across the country in the “aspirant districts as well as best performing district” category..

Classification of Districts 

In Jal Jeevan Survekshan-2023, districts across the country are grouped in various categories. They are as follows;

• The districts with 100% tap connections in a month are front- runners.
• Those with 75 to 100% tap connections are high achievers.
• Those providing 50 to 75% connections have been classified as performers.
• The ones with up to 25% tap water connections are included in the aspirant category.

Ranking District of Uttar Pradesh 

Below is the list of the Uttar Pradesh districts which has performed well and top ranked in the country in various categories: 

Aspirant’s category districts 

No.1 ranked district in India, Shahjahanpur 

No.2 ranked district in India, Bulandshahr

No.3 ranked district in India, Bareilly 

Fastest moving districts within the categories (for month of October 2022)

Aspirant category 

No.1 ranked   district in India, Shahjahanpur

No2. Ranked district in India, Mirzapur 

No.3 ranked district in India, Bulandshahr

Performers (ranked districts in India)

No1. Mon (Nagaland)

No 2. East Jaintia Hills (Meghalaya)

No 3. Mahoba (Uttar Pradesh)

Districts which graduated from one category to another in October month 2022

Districts which graduated to Performer category;

Bulandshahr graduated from Aspirant category to Performer and it was ranked 2nd in the country.

Mirzapur graduated from Aspirant category to Performer and it was ranked 4th in the country.

Lalitpur graduated from Aspirant category to Performer and it was ranked 28th in the country.

Saharanpur graduated from Aspirant category to Performer and it was ranked 38th in the country.

The Jal Jeevan Mission aims to provide functional household tap connection to every rural household with service level at the rate of 55 litres per capita per day. The whole country is to be covered by 2024. 

Union Minister for Jal Shakti : Gajendra Singh Shekhawat