105 Villages Electrified last week under DDUGJY

105 villages have been electrified across the country during last week  under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). Out of these electrified villages,  9 in Odisha, 7 in Jharkhand , 14 villages in Uttar Pradesh, 8 in Arunachal Pradesh , 10 in Bihar, 38 in Assam, 4 in Chhattisgarh, 6 in Madhya Pradesh and 9 in Rajasthan. The progress of ongoing electrification process can be tracked on http://garv.gov.in/dashboard

An update on ongoing electrification process

In view of the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s address to nation, on Independence Day, Government of India has decided to electrify remaining 18,452 un-electrified villages within 1000 days i.e. by 01^st May, 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.

7233 villages have been electrified till date. Out of remaining 10,778 villages, 7,266 villages are to be electrified through grid, 3074 villages are to be electrified through off- grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 438 villages are to be electrified by State Govt own. Total 1654 villages were electrified during April 2015 to 14^th Aug 2015 and after taking initiative by Government of India for taking it on mission mode,  5,579 additional villages have been electrified from 15^th August 2015 to 10^th April 2016.   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 under energisation with the state Discom, identifying the villages where milestone progress are delayed.