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AMRUT's ₹1.97 Lakh Crore Urban Portfolio: Water Supply Is 41% of Projects, 60% of the Money

August 29, 2026

AMRUT 2.0, the urban counterpart to Jal Jeevan Mission's rural water push, has approved ₹1.97 lakh crore across 8,777 projects nationally. Water supply alone is 41% of that project count but 60% of the money — the single most capital-intensive line item in India's urban infrastructure programme. What the public data can't tell you, unlike its rural counterpart, is how much of that money has actually been spent.

Infrastructure & Investment · India · 29 August 2026

AMRUT's ₹1.97 Lakh Crore Urban Portfolio: Water Supply Is 41% of Projects, 60% of the Money

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Four components, one portfolio

Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) 2.0, run by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, funds four categories of urban infrastructure through its state governments and Urban Local Bodies: Water Supply, Sewerage & Septage Management, Water Body Rejuvenation, and Parks & Green Space Development. The Ministry's own public, no-login "State Wise List of Approved Projects" page puts the current national total at 8,777 projects worth ₹1,97,201.55 crore. Every state and UT total below is pulled directly from that live page.

Water dripping from an urban water supply pipeline in India
Water supply is the single most capital-intensive line item in AMRUT 2.0's portfolio — 41% of projects but 60% of the money. Water dripping out of an urban water supply pipeline in India, Ganesh Dhamodkar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
State/UTTotal projectsTotal cost (₹cr)Water Supply (n)Water Supply (₹cr)Sewerage & Septage (n)Sewerage & Septage (₹cr)Water Body Rejuv. (n)Water Body Rejuv. (₹cr)Parks & Green Space (n)Parks & Green Space (₹cr)
Andaman & Nicobar Islands6334.885833.940050.9400
Andhra Pradesh5059,505.912406,524.46712,495.50194485.9400
Arunachal Pradesh23276.7010240.01120.94412.3283.43
Assam57986.9824901.16267.343118.4800
Bihar628,167.78304,648.37113,445.0834.061870.26
Chandigarh7169.64243.775125.870000
Chhattisgarh813,164.86452,362.145645.3722122.59934.76
Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu163.4700163.470000
Delhi695,588.94112.73395,513.262038.64924.31
Goa30184.4126149.36121.26211.9611.83
Gujarat91916,486.034548,956.401676,760.91179652.15119116.56
Haryana773,823.54612,470.30161,353.240000
Himachal Pradesh47321.6517298.86211.60178.39112.79
Jammu & Kashmir901,002.3765621.893373.35227.1200
Jharkhand1124,020.29172,057.6021,826.4971108.312227.89
Karnataka61410,236.382279,574.3900159520.19228141.79
Kerala7113,749.352432,378.72411,184.07356146.137140.41
Ladakh7324.682155.332160.3913.0025.96
Madhya Pradesh1,15312,951.092976,877.53365,432.04430511.75390129.77
Maharashtra28330,335.6312716,604.234612,127.41851,434.4325169.55
Manipur67198.0144186.8500214.4726.69
Meghalaya1121.001121.00000000
Mizoram123161.1219105.80139.228712.00164.09
Nagaland64218.9023111.16293.9210.763813.06
Odisha3363,966.312103,843.8200126122.4800
Puducherry19196.41679.484107.1499.7900
Punjab2164,590.201573,818.9415694.712239.382237.15
Rajasthan36311,560.061785,099.47485,950.85134505.4034.33
Sikkim849.40547.370011.2520.78
Tamil Nadu1,26314,766.672068,049.46296,378.40467225.83561112.97
Telangana2529,584.25983,429.04125,775.11142380.1000
Tripura19202.6810180.2100922.4600
Uttar Pradesh68529,481.2043718,829.994110,148.66190403.441799.09
Uttarakhand50722.7326687.40001828.4866.85
West Bengal4009,987.922069,451.542341.11123161.206934.07
All-India8,7771,97,201.553,5721,18,952.8260571,156.742,9516,003.541,6491,088.44
AMRUT 2.0: Cost by Component ₹ crore, of ₹1,97,201.55 cr total (8,777 projects) Water Supply ₹1,18,953 cr (60%) Sewerage & Septage ₹71,157 cr (36%) Water Body Rejuv. ₹6,004 cr (3%) Parks & Green Space ₹1,088 cr (0.6%)
Source: figures as stated in this article.

"Water Body Rejuv." = Water Body Rejuvenation, abbreviated for table width. Source: Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, AMRUT Universe portal, "State Wise List of Approved Projects" (amrut.mohua.gov.in/approvedProjects/state), a live public page requiring no login.

Water supply carries the money, not the project count

Water Supply is 41% of AMRUT's project count nationally but 60% of its total cost — by a wide margin the most capital-intensive of the four components. Sewerage & Septage Management, despite being only 7% of project count, still accounts for 36% of the total AMRUT cost — both water supply and sewerage are infrastructure-heavy, capital-intensive categories, unlike Water Body Rejuvenation and Parks & Green Space, which together are 26% of project count but just 3.6% of total spend.

The national figure cross-checks cleanly against an August 2026 Lok Sabha answer on AMRUT 2.0 (previously covered on this blog in the JJM rural-water piece): that answer put water supply at 3,572 projects worth ₹1,18,968.38 crore — within 0.01% of this page's 3,572 projects and ₹1,18,952.82 crore. Two independently-maintained government sources agreeing this closely is itself a useful confirmation that the underlying project count is stable, not still being actively revised.

Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu together account for over half of India's AMRUT water-supply capital — ₹62,014 crore of the ₹1,18,953 crore national total.

What this table can't tell you

This is a count-and-cost table, not a progress table. Unlike Jal Jeevan Mission's rural-water reporting — covered in India's ₹7.9 Lakh Crore Rural Water Pipeline: What "Upcoming" Actually Means, State by State, which has a clean, pre-aggregated Completed/Ongoing/Work-order-not-issued split for every state — AMRUT's public reporting has no equivalent state-wise status summary. Individual AMRUT projects do carry a status field (labelled "Milestone" in the portal's own project-level views, e.g. "Contract Awarded"), reachable by drilling state → city → project through the AMRUT Universe portal, but there is no single published table that rolls that status up by state the way JJM's "Format B15" does. That's not a gap in this piece's research — it's a gap in what MoHUA has chosen to pre-aggregate and publish; the Ministry of Jal Shakti built and published that specific rollup for JJM, and MoHUA has not built the equivalent for AMRUT.

One MoHUA-published PDF looked like it might fill the gap — "Status of Water Supply Projects with Water Treatment Plants" — but checking all 910 project rows in it found essentially every one carries the identical status, "Contract Awarded." That's not a completion breakdown; it's a snapshot scoped to one single milestone stage, not a status distribution across stages.

What this piece does not establish. This piece does not have a completion-status breakdown for AMRUT the way the companion JJM piece does for rural water — that data does not appear to exist in MoHUA's public reporting in a state-aggregated form, and this piece did not attempt to reconstruct one by manually drilling city-by-city through thousands of individual projects. It does not verify whether MoHUA publishes milestone-stage-specific PDFs beyond the "Contract Awarded" one found (e.g. a "Completed" or "Work in Progress" equivalent) — only the public links visible on the AMRUT Universe login page were checked. This article does not recommend any investment, business, or policy decision; nothing here is investment or policy advice.

Sources and caveats

All state-wise project counts and costs are drawn directly from the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs' AMRUT Universe portal, "State Wise List of Approved Projects" (amrut.mohua.gov.in/approvedProjects/state), a live, public, no-login page, graded strong as a primary government source. The cross-check against the Lok Sabha figure (3,572 projects / ₹1,18,968.38 crore) is drawn from a Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs written reply in the Lok Sabha, answered 06.08.2026, a primary parliamentary source, graded strong. The existence of a per-project "Milestone" status field, reachable via state → city → project drill-down with encrypted (non-sequential) IDs, was confirmed directly by navigating the portal; this piece did not attempt to enumerate all cities or projects given the scale involved. The "Status of Water Supply Projects with Water Treatment Plants" PDF (910 rows, dated as on 02.03.2026) was downloaded and checked directly; the finding that essentially all rows share the "Contract Awarded" status is this piece's own text-extraction and pattern count, graded strong for what was checked, though the PDF's dense, wrapped multi-line table formatting means a small number of rows could have been missed or misparsed. This article does not recommend any investment, business, or policy decision; nothing here is investment or policy advice.

Related on this blog: Tamil Nadu's Water Infrastructure Runs on Three Separate Money Streams, and None of Them Match the Number You've Heard · West Bengal Sanctioned 12.6 Lakh PMAY-G Houses. It Has Finished 1.5 Lakh. The Reason Is a Four-Year Funds Freeze. · India's ₹7.9 Lakh Crore Rural Water Pipeline: What "Upcoming" Actually Means, State by State — other pieces on this blog asking the same question of a different scheme: how much money was sanctioned, and how much of it actually became a finished connection, tap or house.

About this article: Researched, written and edited by Umashankar Triplicane Dwarakanathan, with AI research assistance; every figure is meant to trace to the primary source cited. See the Editorial Policy for how sourcing, AI use and corrections work.

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