The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi government that targets to provide safe and adequate drinking water to all rural households in India by 2024 would help save 1.36 lakh lives of children under 5 year age every year, a paper co-authored by Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer argues.
The Jal Jeevan Mission's ambition to bring safe drinking water to all rural homes is likely to be highly valuable, preventing around 1,36,000 child deaths annually.This is as per a paper titled "Potential Reduction in Child Mortality .
A significant new research led by Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer has found that India’s Jal Jeevan Mission, which seeks to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual tap connections by 2024 to all rural households, can save 1.36 lakh lives of children under five if it succeeds.
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