RAS question
What is 'Sujalam Bharat', launched under the restructured Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0?
Correct answer: (B) A national digital framework assigning every village a unique water service ID.
Sujalam Bharat is the national digital framework under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 that gives every village a unique Sujal Gaon or Service Area ID to map drinking-water supply from source to tap.
Explanation
Under the restructured Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, the Union Cabinet approved a shift from mere infrastructure creation to sustainable, service-delivery-oriented rural drinking-water governance. Sujalam Bharat is the digital layer for that shift: the Prime Minister of India release describes it as a uniform national digital framework under which every village gets a unique Sujal Gaon or Service Area ID. That ID is meant to digitally map the complete drinking-water supply system from source to tap, making the village-level service area traceable. This is why option B is correct. The same official release also places Sujalam Bharat within the larger JJM 2.0 restructuring, for which the total outlay was enhanced to Rs. 8.69 lakh crore.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Sujalam Bharat is not described as a groundwater recharge programme; it is tied to digital mapping of drinking-water service delivery from source to tap.
- (C) The initiative is not an urban water-quality testing programme, because the JJM 2.0 framework concerns rural drinking-water supply systems and village-level service IDs.
- (D) There is no household water-purifier subsidy in the Prime Minister of India release; Sujalam Bharat is a digital service-area framework, not a consumer subsidy scheme.
Concept
This tests governance through digital public infrastructure in a flagship rural service-delivery scheme. RAS often asks such questions because Rajasthan administration work repeatedly involves centrally sponsored schemes, Gram Panchayat-level implementation and service accountability.