Ask Kamli how happy she is to wake up every morning and see clean water flowing from the tap. Her eyes welled with joy as she showed Deputy Chief Minister Shri Arun Sao the stream of water flowing from the tap in her courtyard. The Jal Jeevan Mission has brought priceless happiness to thousands of women like Kamli. Once worried about drinking and wastewater, the taps in their homes have transformed their lives.

During his four-day visit to Bastar, Deputy Chief Minister and Public Health Engineering Minister Shri Arun Sao visited Kamli village to see the work of the Jal Jeevan Mission. In Kamli village, Duganpal, Tokapal development block, Bastar district, he also visited a few other homes to see water coming from the taps. The joy of having water in their homes through the Jal Jeevan Mission was evident on the faces of all the women.

Jal Jeevan Mission is bringing about a profound change in the lives of women in remote villages and forest areas. A significant portion of the population previously struggled daily to access drinking water, especially during the summer, when the journey with a pot of water on their heads would stretch from a few hundred meters to several kilometers.

The provision of water, an essential necessity for life, used to make life difficult for women in summer. In Duganpal too, women had to go to the village hand pump or well every day to arrange water for everyone in the house. Now, with the installation of taps in the houses, this problem has been resolved. As the work of Jal Jeevan Mission is getting completed, the worries and troubles of women about bringing water from outside are getting resolved. So far, more than eight and a half thousand schemes have been completed in Chhattisgarh and handed over to the Panchayats for operation.

Jal Jeevan Mission is not just a scheme to provide drinking water to every household. It is also bringing about a profound change in the daily routine and lives of women. In villages, women have traditionally been responsible for providing drinking water and other household needs. Without access to water at home, they must collect water daily for the entire family from hand pumps, public taps, wells, or other sources.

This laborious and time-consuming daily task becomes even more difficult during the rainy season and the scorching heat. In many areas, water sources dry up in the summer, forcing people to fetch water from long distances. Providing water for their families becomes a daily struggle. Women spend many hours of their day engaged in this task.

The Jal Jeevan Mission, by providing tap water to every household, is relieving women of many problems. Access to clean and safe drinking water has relieved them of many worries. They no longer have to expend significant time and effort daily searching for water. This gives them more time to devote to other household chores, such as raising children, farming, and other livelihood activities, enabling them to devote more time and attention to these tasks.

The Jal Jeevan Mission's 24-month water supply at home eliminates the hassle of fetching water during the summer and the constant rains during the summer. Water quality is affected by the water table dropping in the summer and the continuous rains during the monsoon. Poor quality drinking water poses a risk of stomach ailments, and the use of contaminated water for sanitation poses a risk of skin diseases. The Jal Jeevan Mission has also eliminated these health risks.