The Get Real India segment investigates the Jal Jeevan Mission in Chhattisgarh, revealing a stark contrast between official claims and ground reality. Despite government records indicating over 80% completion, many villages face acute water shortages.
00:00Let's turn to tonight's Get Real India story, the Jaljeevan mission, which was meant to bring clean drinking water to every rural household by 2024.
00:09But in Chhattisgarh, our investigation has uncovered a shocking reality.
00:15Taps are running dry, villages still remain parched.
00:19What then happened to the ambitious Jaljeevan mission in Chhattisgarh?
00:23Take a look at tonight's Get Real India story.
00:30In this village in Chhattisgarh, pipelines laid under the Jaljeevan mission give no water.
00:55So villagers have found another use.
00:56They tie their cattle and goats to them.
01:00The central government's ambitious Jaljeevan mission promised pipe water to every rural home by 2024.
01:13Government records claim that more than 80% of the work has been completed, most of it between 2022 and 2024 under the previous Congress government.
01:23In Sarguja, according to government documents, only 14 out of 569 villages receive water through working taps.
01:32That's just 2.5% coverage.
01:34In many villages in central Chhattisgarh, pipelines are laid, but there's no source.
01:44Bijanapuri village, home to over 1,000 people, has only two functional water points.
01:50Yet official documents claim 100% coverage.
01:52We have come all the way to Bijanapuri village where number of taps were installed under the Jaljeevan mission in the previous government and in fact no water ever flowed from those taps.
02:07It is a typical paper-based scam that was executed by the previous Congress government.
02:12However, there is only little that has been done by this current BJP government to fix the damage.
02:19No audit, no accountability, only empty buckets and empty promises.
02:25Women here say they wake up as early as 3 in the morning to fetch water.
02:48The story is the same in villages like
03:16Dhamhatola in Rajnanandgaon district.
03:19No water is not coming.
03:50Former Minister Guru Rudra Kumar blamed district officials for the tardy work.
04:09With the 2024 deadline missed, will the new government investigate the spending or will this too be buried under paperwork?
04:17With Sumi Keval Patel, Bureau Report, India Today.
04:24Okay, let's turn from there to tonight's good news story.
04:28I wish the good news story was cricket.
04:31But sadly, India has lost that cliffhanger test at Lourdes by just 22 runs despite a remarkable effort by Ravinder Jadeja.
04:40So, that's not our good news of the day.
04:43Had we won, I'm sure it would have been.
04:45Our good news instead is Group Captain Shubanchu Shukla, who is returning to Earth after spending 18 days on board the International Space Station.
04:55The spacecraft is now expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean of California at around 3 p.m. Indian Standard Time tomorrow.
05:05India Today tracks Shubanchu Shukla's space odyssey as he prepares to return back to Earth.
05:11Take a look.
05:11Group Captain Shubanchu Shukla is all set for a gharwapasy.
05:23After spending 18 days on board the International Space Station, the second Indian to ever be in space is finally set to return to Earth on Tuesday.
05:33At precisely 4.45 p.m. Indian Standard Time, the Dragon capsule of the Exeo Mission 4 undocked and began its journey back to Earth.
05:46After a 22-hour long journey, Shuk along with astronauts, Peggy Whitson, Slavos Wisniewski and Tibor Kapu will splash down off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean at around 3 p.m. on July 15th.
06:06Before bidding farewell to International Space Station, Shuk paid tribute to India from space.
06:11It will be amazing or incredible because of the people.
06:14Echoing the iconic statement by the man who conquered space before him, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma.
06:23How do you see the world above?
06:27I can't say anything, but I can't say anything.
06:30I can say everything.
06:33Today's world looks confident.
06:37Today's world looks good.
06:39A billion plus Indians are now eagerly awaiting Shuk's return, including his very proud family.
06:55It's very good to see the children who are here.
06:57It's very good to see the children who are here in the future.
06:58It's very nice feeling.
07:01It's a very happy feeling.
07:02It's so much happy to see children.
07:03It's so much fun to see them.
07:05It's a good feeling.
07:07We are happy to see them.
07:09It's very happy that their mission is complete.
07:11And it will be unlocking today.
07:13Tomorrow's world will be welcome.
07:15The children are always very inquisitive.
07:16Among ISRO's chosen Gaganayan candidates,
07:45Shuk's journey was part of a private mission.
07:48But his success marks a huge leap for India's manned spaceflight program.
07:55EuroReport, India Today.
08:02And we wish the captain a safe return back home.
08:08Let me leave you with two images tonight.
08:10The first one, Omar Abdullah, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir,
08:14scaling a graveyard wall, confronting the police of his own state of Jammu and Kashmir,
08:20amidst the Martyr's Day Rao in Kashmir.
08:23Abdullah paid tributes to protesters shot dead by Maharaja Hari Singh's Dogra's force in 1931,
08:29but not without some controversy,
08:31because he was pushed and jostled and eventually forced to climb a wall
08:36before he could reach the graveyard.
08:37Completely unfortunate incident, not the way you treat a Chief Minister of a state.
08:45Our second image of the day is a happier one, the dance of champions.
08:52Wimbledon 2025 champions Yannick Sinner and Iga Swiantek dazzle not just with their rackets,
08:59but with their rhythm, lighting up the champions' dinner in style.
09:04That's our image of the day.
09:06Sinner and Swiantek, the two big winners of Wimbledon this year.
