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Centre tightens screws on states over lapses in Jal Jeevan Mission
The Daily Guardian
|November 27, 2025
The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has come under intense scrutiny as 287 central nodal officers, appointed at the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, carried out extensive ground verification of mega and single-village water supply projects across nearly 473 villages, covering schemes worth close to Rs 1.30 lakh crore.The inspections were conducted as part of the Centre’s push for strict monitoring and a zero-tolerance stance toward financial, procedural and quality-related violations under the mission.
According to officials, the states have been repeatedly instructed to ensure that every complaint is examined promptly, field verification is carried out without delay, and all required disciplinary, contractual, and legal actions are taken without exception. Transparency and accountability remain nonnegotiable pillars of the scheme, as the Prime Minister emphasised.
This story is from the November 27, 2025 edition of The Daily Guardian.
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