Program launched under AMRUT 2.0 seeks to improve quality of treated effluent discharge and promote recycling of treated water in urban areas.
About Jal Hi Amrit Program:
- Key Purpose: To incentivize States & UTs to manage used water (sewage) treatment plants (STPs) for ensuring recyclable good quality treated water.
- Key Aspects of Initiative:
- Clean Water Credit System to build competition among cities, develop capacities and incentivise them to attain good quality used treated water.
- Clean water credits will be awarded to STPs in terms of Star-rating (between 3 stars to 5 stars) certificate which will be valid for six months.
- Performance-Based Incentives: Provided to STPs based on star ratings/Clean Water Credit.
- Encouraging water circularity
- Clean Water Credit System to build competition among cities, develop capacities and incentivise them to attain good quality used treated water.
About AMRUT 2.0
- Ministry: MoHUA
- Tenure: Launched in 2021 for 05 years.
- Purpose: To provide universal coverage of water supply through functional taps to all households in all statutory towns.
- Also, coverage of septage management in 500 cities covered in 1stphase of AMRUT scheme.
- AMRUT 1.0 was launched in 2015 to provide basic civic amenities (E.g. water supply; Septage management; storm water drainage etc.) in the selected cities and towns.
- Also, coverage of septage management in 500 cities covered in 1stphase of AMRUT scheme.