Rapid Fire
Jal Hi AMRIT Scheme
- 04 Oct 2024
- 2 min read
Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs approved the Jal Hi AMRIT Scheme to promote efficient water management.
- It is being launched under AMRUT 2.0 reforms.
- It incentivises states and Union Territories (UTs) to manage sewage treatment plants (STPs) efficiently, ensuring the production of good-quality, recyclable treated water.
- STPs purify water by removing sewage and contaminants, making it suitable to be released into natural water sources.
- Clean Water Credits will be awarded in terms of Star-rating between 3 stars to 5 stars certificate valid for six months.
- STPs with Clean Water Credits of 3-star and above in different groups as below will be given financial incentives.
- According to the Central Pollution Control Board (March 2021), India's current water treatment capacity is 27.3% and the sewage treatment capacity is 18.6 % (with another 5.2 % capacity in development).
- Both Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 and AMRUT 2.0 focuses on waste water management.
- AMRUT 1.0 primarily aimed at providing basic services such as water supply, sewerage management while AMRUT 2.0 focuses on City Water Balance Plan (CWBP) to recycle/reuse treated sewage.
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