Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY)
Country	India
Prime Minister(s)	Narendra Modi
Ministry	Power
Key people	Piyush Goyal
Launched	2015
Budget	₹756 billion (US$9.1 billion)
Status: Active

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (Hindi: दीन दयाल उपाध्याय ग्राम ज्योति योजना, abbr. DDUGJY) is a Government of India scheme designed to provide continuous power supply to rural India.

The initiative is named in honor of Indian political philosopher Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.

It is one of the key initiatives of the Modi Government.

The government plans to invest ₹756 billion (US$9.1 billion) for rural electrification under this scheme. The scheme will replace the existing Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY).

The DDUGJY scheme will enable to initiate much awaited reforms in the rural areas. It focuses on feeder separation (rural households & agricultural) and strengthening of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure including metering at all levels in rural areas. This will help in providing round the clock power to rural households and adequate power to agricultural consumers .The earlier scheme for rural electrification viz. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) has been subsumed in the new scheme as its rural electrification component.

The Ministry of Power has launched a new app, GARV-II app to provide real-time data of all six lakh villages of the country. The app is envisaged to ensure transparency in the implementation of rural electrification programme. The new app will also enable the citizens to participate in the developmental works and can give their feedback and inputs related to the rural electrification programme. The participation of Citizens will enable public scrutiny of the rural electrification programmes. In addition, the village-wise works sanctioned under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) has been mapped to scrutinise the progress of work carried out under the project in each village

Background

• The rural agricultural and non-Agriculture consumers (domestic and non-domestic load) of the country are generally serviced through the local distribution network. Many rural areas of the country face insufficient electricity supply, consequently the distribution utilities are forced to resort to load shedding, thus affecting the power supply to both Agriculture and non-Agriculture consumers.
• The demand of power in rural areas is increasing day by day due to changing consumer base, improving living standards for which augmentation of rural infrastructure needs to be regularly undertaken
• The investment in the distribution network is low due to bad financial health of the distribution companies. Therefore, in order to augment the reliability and quality of supply distribution network needs to be strengthened.
• To improve the commercial viability of power distribution, there is need for metering of all categories of the consumers

Scheme

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:

1. To provide electrification to all villages
2. Feeder separation to ensure sufficient power to farmers and regular supply to other consumers
3. Improvement of Sub-transmission and distribution network to improve the quality and reliability of the supply
4. Metering to reduce the losses

State-wise achievements of un-electrified villages under Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) as on 31.3.2016 from Indianstat.
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States	Cumulative Achievement as on 31.03.2016
Arunachal Pradesh	2252
Assam	9153
Bihar	25040
Chhattisgarh	1692
Himachal Pradesh	91
Jammu & Kashmir	239
Jharkhand	18212
Karnataka	55
Madhya Pradesh	998
Manipur	883
Meghalaya	1842
Mizoram	170
Nagaland	102
Odisha	15644
Rajasthan	4304
Sikkim	25
Tripura	150
Uttar Pradesh	29113
Uttarakhand	1514
West Bengal	4192
Total	115671

Financial provisions

Scheme has an outlay of ₹760 billion (US$9.1 billion) for implementation of the projects under which Government of India shall provide Grant of ₹630 billion (US$7.5 billion)

Benefits

• All villages and households shall be electrified
• Increase in agriculture yield
• Business of Small and household enterprises shall grow resulting in 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

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