Objective of deen dayal upadhyay gram jyoti yojana
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1 DeenDayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY)
Keeping in view the above problems, Ministry of Power, Government of India has launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana for rural areas having following objectives:
i) To provide electrification to all villages
ii) Feeder separation to ensure sufficient power to farmers and regular supply to other consumers
iii) Improvement of Sub-transmission and distribution network to improve the quality and reliability of the supply
iv) Metering to reduce the losses
2 Financial provisions:
Scheme has an outlay of Rs 76000 Cr for implementation of the projects under which Government of India shall provide Grant of Rs 63000 C A total of Rs 14680 Cr worth projects have already been approved out of which projects amounting to Rs 5827 Crs have been approved for Bihar state.
3.. Benefits from the scheme
· All villages and households shall be electrified
· Increase in agriculture yield
· Business of Small and household enterprises shall grow resulting into new avenues for employment
· Improvement in Health, Education, Banking (ATM) services
· Improvement in accessibility to radio, telephone, television, internet and mobile etc
· Betterment in social security due to availability of electricity
· Accessibility of electricity to schools, panchayats, hospitals and police stations etc
· Rural areas shall get increased opportunities for comprehensive development