It was just on July 31 that this
daily reported 82 villages in Nagaland to be without electricity supply. On
Monday, the government said that three villages in the state had been
“electrified,” part of a nationwide rural electrification program.
192 villages have been electrified
across the country during last week (from July 25th to 31st July,
2016) under the rural electricity program, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti
Yojna (DDUGJY).
Out of said ‘electrified’
villages, 10 villages belong to Assam, 2 in Bihar, 24 in Jharkhand, 2 in Madhya
Pradesh, 123 in Meghalaya, 3 in Nagaland, 15 in Odisha, 7 in Rajasthan, 5 in
Uttar Pradesh and 1 in Uttarakhand. The progress of ongoing electrification
process can be tracked on line too.
The Government of India had
decided to “electrify” 18,452 un-electrified villages within 1000 days i.e., by
May 1, 2018. The project has been taken on mission mode and strategy for
electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months
and also dividing village electrification process in 12 Stage milestones with
defined timelines for monitoring.
9,326 villages have been
electrified till date. Out of remaining 9126 villages, 501 villages are
uninhabited. 5,694 villages are to be electrified through grid, 2,638 villages
to be electrified through off-grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to
geographical barriers and 293 villages are to be electrified by state
government.
A total of 1, 654 villages were given
electricity during April 2015 to August 14, 2015. After taking initiatives as
decided by the Government of India to take the project on a mission mode, 7,672
additional villages were supplied with electricity from August 15 2015 to July 31,
2016, the Ministry of Power stated in a handout on Monday.
In order to expedite the progress
further, a close monitoring is being done through Gram Vidyut Abhiyanta (GVA)
and various actions are also being taken on regular basis like reviewing the
progress on monthly basis during the RPM meeting, sharing of list of villages
which are at the stage of “energization” with the state DISCOM, identifying the
villages where milestone progress are delayed.
On July 30, this daily reported
that there were 82 villages in Nagaland that were still waiting for electricity
to come. According to the June 2016 report of the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram
Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY), there are no ‘inhabited villages’ in the state but more
than 80 ‘habited’ villages were without electricity.
So far, 145 villages across the
country were reported to have been supplied with electricity during the last
week ending June 26, 2016, under the DDUGJY, the rural electrification scheme
of the central government.
The DDUGJY aims to provide
continuous power supply to rural India. The initiative is named in honor of
Indian political philosopher Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. The government plans to
invest `756 billion (US$11 billion) for rural electrification under this
scheme. The scheme will replace the existing Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran
Yojana (RGGVY).
As of 26 June, 8,529 villages have
been electrified. Out of remaining 9,923 villages, 459 villages are
“uninhabitated.”
6,374 villages are still yet to
receive electricity. 2,754 villages to be electrified through off- grid where
grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 336 villages
are to be electrified by state governments.
(Al Ngullie, August 1, 2016; Eastern Mirror)
(Al Ngullie, August 1, 2016; Eastern Mirror)
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