Jal Jeevan Mission — records for a dry tap

A tap connection has three lives: the dashboard entry, the pipe, and the water. The dashboard is public, the pipe is in your lane, and the water — or its absence — is in your bucket. RTI lives in the gap between the first and the third.

• Village-level coverage — households with connections, on the JJM dashboards at jjm.gov.in and ejalshakti.gov.in
• Scheme details per village — source, storage, distribution and the approved works
• Water-quality test results — the field-test-kit and laboratory results villages are entitled to see displayed
• Fund releases — Central and state shares, and the utilisation the Department reports — PIB's December 2025 release records ₹1,85,958 crore utilised in the approved mission period, with the balance extended for use by 31 March 2025

None of this is secret; all of it is exactly what a stalled scheme stops producing at the village board.

1. Copy of the approved Village Action Plan / scheme file for village ____, block ____, including source, works, and completion dates.
2. The date the scheme for village ____ was declared complete, and the functional household connections reported from it.
3. Copy of the water-quality test results for the source of village ____ for the last 12 months, with the testing laboratory.
4. The funds released, received and spent on the village ____ scheme, year-wise.
5. The number of complaints of non-functional household connections in block ____, and how many were resolved.

Send it to the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) / Rural Water Supply Department of the state — JJM runs with states, and the village file sits with the implementing department's district division. ₹10, 30 days; first appeal to the department's FAA; second to the State Information Commission.

1. Scheme “complete”, tap absent — points 1 and 2: the completion date and the connections reported expose the gap between the register and the lane
2. Tap present, water irregular or unsafe — point 3: the quality results are statutory records; an absent or stale test is itself an answer
3. Stalled works, contractor gone — point 4: the fund trail names the stage and usually the outstanding utilisation certificate, which no division enjoys producing

1. **Complaint first** — the department's own grievance channel or helpline; the RTI that follows can then ask for the complaint's status too
2. **Photograph the board** — the village information board is supposed to display scheme and test details; a photo of an empty board is evidence
3. **The Gram Sabha** — JJM works are to be vetted in it; the RTI can ask for the resolution's copy
4. **Water quality above all** — for contamination, the health system and the test record move faster together than either alone

Real example. Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak's village showed “completed” for two years while the overhead tank ran dry weekly. The scheme-file copy showed the balancing tank paid for but never built; the quality results ran fourteen months stale. The first appeal — never needing the Commission — produced a restoration order for the tank line within a season.

The Centre's mission, running with the states since August 2019, to give every rural household a functional tap water connection — Har Ghar Jal.

Yes — they are records of the testing programme; ask for the source's results for the last 12 months with the testing laboratory named.

The state's PHED or Rural Water Supply Department — the implementing authority whose division holds the village scheme file.

Functional household connections are the unit of coverage; in-village distribution to the household is part of the scheme works.

• eSanjeevani — when the health side needs records too
• File RTI online — the 12-step guide
• Why RTIs get rejected — and the fixes
• The RTI Playbook

• PIB, Ministry of Jal Shakti, 1 December 2025 — JJM outlay ₹2,08,652 crore 2019-24, utilisation and extension to 31 March 2025
• jjm.gov.in and ejalshakti.gov.in — JJM dashboards

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Outlay, utilisation and extension figures per the PIB release of 1 December 2025; dashboards verified live on this run.