Dimapur, August 1: 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. ‘Electrified’ villages from 25-07-2016 to 31-07-2016
+ > State - District - Village
+ Assam 10
+ Bihar 2
+ Jharkhand 24
+ Madhya Pradesh 2
+ Meghalaya 123
+ Nagaland 3
+ Odisha 15
+ Rajasthan 7
+ Uttar Pradesh 5
+ Uttarakhand 1
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.
