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Government of Indiawith the objective to improve the quality and reliability of power supply in rural areas has launched the scheme Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), an integrated scheme covering all aspects of rural power distribution which was conveyed by the Ministry of Power on December 3, 2014. “The erstwhile Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) scheme for village electrification and providing electricity distribution infrastructure in the rural areas has been subsumed in the DDUGJY scheme. Rural Electrification Corporation is the Nodal Agency for implementation of DDUGJY.
DDUGJY facilitates towards achievement of ‘24x7 Power For All’ in the rural areas of India, through the following project components:
a) Separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders facilitating continuous quality power supply to non-agricultural consumers and adequate power supply to agricultural consumers;
b) Strengthening and augmentation of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure;
c) Micro-grid and Off-grid distribution network;
d) Metering of Distribution Transformers/Feeders/Consumers; and
e) Rural Electrification component (including the erstwhile RE projects)
Under the scheme, 60% of the project cost (85% for special States) is provided as grant by Government of India and additional grant upto 15% (5% for Special Category States) is provided by Government of lndia on achievement of prescribed milestones.(Special Category States -All North Eastern States including Sikkim, J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand)
Village Electrification-– Landmark achievement
India’s rural electrification programme passed through several stages of improvement with appropriate intervention at Government of India level. In spite of various programmes of Government of India, as on April 1, 2015; there were 18,452 villages which still remained then un-electrified.
In the 69th Independence Day address on 15th August, 2015, Hon’ble Prime Minister pledged to the nation that all remaining Un-Electrified (UE) villages in the Country would be electrified within 1,000 days with the help of States and local bodies.
The Ministry and REC, the nodal agency, had extensive consultation with States and other stakeholders to understand current scenario, availability of resources, possible remedial measures to accelerate the progress, monitoring mechanism etc. and this gave rise to new ideas, strategy and approach. These interalia included, Proper identification of villages with Census 2011 Code, Innovative Monitoring Mechanism to measure progress and outcome ,Web enabled platform to capture near real time progress-. ‘GARV App’ (www.garv.gov.in), Strengthening of field level team with modern technology, Participation of public representatives, Participation of District and local administration, Regular and Rigorous review and monitoring at all levels, involvement of CPSUs, Availability of funds etc.
With the above initiatives and collective efforts of States and other stakeholders, 28th April 2018 had been made as a landmark day in the Power Sector domain by achieving electrification of all un-electrified census inhabited villages in the country totalling to 18,374 villages excluding the 1,305 uninhabited villages with 1,515 villages electrified in this FY 2018-19. Leisang of Manipur state was the last village electrified
International Energy Agency (IEA), 2018 has acknowledged that “India’s move to energize every village in the country with electricity is one of the greatest success stories in the world in 2018.”
An amount of ₹44896.30 Cr. has been Sanctioned (including DDG Projects) (Grant involved ₹28,158.92Cr); against which ₹ 30,942.9 Crore (incl. grant of ₹22,365.69 Crore, has been releasedtill June 30, 2021
Physical progress:
| No. | Item | Achievement |
| a | Feeder Segregation (CKm) | 1,29,306 |
| b | Sub-station New (Nos.) | 1,834 |
| c | Sub-station Augmentation (Nos.) | 2,133 |
| d | Distribution Transformer (Nos.) | 3,87,602 |
| e | High Tension Line (11 & 33KV)(CKm) | 1,38,562 |
| f | Low Tension Line (CKm) | 2,86,728 |
| g | SansadAdarsh Gram Yojana Villages (Nos.) | 873 |
| h | Consumer Metering (Nos.) | 1,54,30,154 |
| i | Distn. Transformer & Feeder Metering (Nos.) | 2,63,037 |
Under erstwhile RE subsumed under DDUGJY an amount of ₹ 66,353.60 Cr. (including DDG Projects) (Max. Grant involved ₹ 59,718.24 Cr.) has been sanctioned against which₹58,182 Cr (incl. grant of Rs. 52,504.66 has been released till June 30, 2021
Physical progress:
| No. | Items | Achievement |
| a | Sub-station New (Nos.) | 881 |
| b | Sub-station Augmentation (Nos.) | 2,058 |
| c | Distribution Transformer (Nos) | 10,14,288 |
| d | High Tension Line (33/11KV)(CKm) | 4,87,700 |
| e | Low Tension Line (CKm) | 7,82,201 |
Addl. Infrastructure for enabling electrification of Saubhagya households:
An additional fund ₹14,178.86 Crores (Grant involved: ₹9,399Cr) has been approved for creation of additional infrastructure against which ₹ 7,092.69 Cr (incl. grant of ₹ 6,549.04 Crore) has been released till June 30, 2021
Physical progress:
| No | Item | Achievement |
| a | Sub-station New (Nos.) | 7 |
| b | Distribution Transformer (Nos.) | 220 |
| c | High Tension Line(33/11KV)(CKm ) | 2,13,077 |
| d | Low Tension Line (CKm) | 1,91,468 |