'Jal Jeevan Mission' Scheme was declared in the Union Budget of which Financial Year ?

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Correct — C, 2021 – 22. The commission's key marks the Union Budget of 2021-22, presented on 1 February 2021, and that year corresponds to the announcement of the JAL JEEVAN MISSION (URBAN). In that Budget the Finance Minister announced a mission for universal water supply in all 4,378 urban local bodies, with 2.86 crore household tap connections and liquid waste management in 500 AMRUT cities, at an indicative outlay of about Rs 2,87,000 crore over five years. (The Rs 50,011 crore figure often quoted for 2021-22 belongs to the RURAL mission's budget estimate that year, not to the urban one.) THE STUDENT MUST ALSO KNOW THE OTHER HALF OF THIS, because it is what the plain name means: the Jal Jeevan Mission WITHOUT the word 'Urban' — the rural mission, 'Har Ghar Jal' — was announced in the Union Budget of 2019-20, presented on 5 July 2019, and was formally launched by the Prime Minister on 15 August 2019. That is option (b). So the key's 2021-22 is correct for the urban mission and the paper's unqualified phrasing points more naturally at the rural one. Following the settled practice for this series, this card argues the commission's marked answer, which decides the marks, and states the sourced record plainly alongside it. Notably, UPPSC itself dated the Jal Jeevan Mission to August 2019 in a match-list question two years later, in its 2024 paper.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Wrong under either reading. The Budget of 2022-23, presented on 1 February 2022, only four months before this exam, made further allocations to a mission that already existed — it did not create it. Neither the rural mission nor the urban mission was announced in that year.  (b) The commission's key does not mark this option, so it earns no marks — but a candidate should understand exactly what it corresponds to, because it is not a random year. The Union Budget of 2019-20, presented on 5 July 2019, is where the Jal Jeevan Mission proper, the RURAL mission, was announced, with an allocation of about Rs 10,001 crore and the goal of a functional tap connection for every rural household by 2024; the Prime Minister launched it publicly on 15 August 2019. On the unqualified words 'Jal Jeevan Mission' this option is defensible, and it is the answer a well-prepared candidate would very reasonably have marked. The key marks (c), which fits the Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) announced in the Budget of 2021-22.  (d) Nothing in the Jal Jeevan family originates in the Budget of 2020-21, presented on 1 February 2020. It sits between the rural mission's announcement in July 2019 and the urban mission's announcement in February 2021, and is offered purely as a plausible-looking neighbour to both.

Concept: There are two Jal Jeevan Missions, and separating them dissolves most of the confusion around this question. The Jal Jeevan Mission (rural) was announced in the Budget of 2019-20 and launched on 15 August 2019, under the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation in the Ministry of Jal Shakti. It subsumed the earlier National Rural Drinking Water Programme and set a single measurable target — a functional household tap connection delivering adequate, regular, safe drinking water to every rural household by 2024 — with implementation shared between the Centre and the States and with village water and sanitation committees, or Pani Samitis, at the local level. The Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) was announced two Budgets later, on 1 February 2021, and is the urban counterpart: universal tap water coverage across all 4,378 urban local bodies, together with sewerage and septage management in the 500 AMRUT cities, at an indicative outlay of about Rs 2,87,000 crore over five years.

State PCS 2022 Q59 — Economy PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2022 Q59 — Economy PYQ with Answer