Srinagar, Sept. 22 -- Jammu and Kashmir has spent about Rs.7,000 crore under the Jal Jeevan Mission, but a House committee has found that 63 percent of 3,253 water-supply schemes are non-functional.

That figure turns a public infrastructure programme into a question of public accountability.

A project cannot be judged by the money spent, pipes purchased or works recorded as complete. Its success rests on whether households receive reliable, safe drinking water.

The Jal Jeevan Mission was built around a straightforward promise: rural households would receive functional tap connections with adequate quantities of prescribed-quality water on a regular basis. The Union government set 2024 as the original target. J&K's figures show how shar...