Sunita Rajan
Former Joint Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti
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About
Sunita Rajan spent 22 years in the Ministry of Jal Shakti before retiring as Joint Secretary. She was the nodal officer for the Jal Jeevan Mission across eight states. She contributes to NT's policy desk with detailed breakdowns of how central water schemes are designed, where they stall, and why last-mile delivery remains the hardest problem.
Credentials & Background
IES 1999. Former Joint Secretary, Jal Shakti Ministry. Nodal officer, JJM Phase II (2021–23).
Recent Pieces by Sunita
Jal Jeevan Mission: the 11 states that will miss the 2026 deadline — and why
From the inside: the technical and financial bottlenecks that no press release mentions.
How a central scheme becomes a state scheme becomes nobody's scheme
Federalism in practice means accountability disappears somewhere between Delhi, the state capital, and the village.