NEW DELHI: Manipur's Leisang village became the ultimate non-electrified inhabited village to join India's mainline supply community at 5.30pm on Saturday, an important milestone within the country's adventure towards universal electricity access.
This way that each one 597,464 inhabited villages within the country now have access to power, pleasing a promise the PM had made on August 15, 2015, when he introduced that each one unelectrified villages would get power over the following 1,000 days.
The ultimate inhabited village to be powered throughout the off-grid gadget — remoted supply networks, mostly with solar power plants — used to be Pakol, additionally in Manipur.
While elementary infrastructure akin to distribution transformer and features want to be set up in inhabited localities, including Dalit hamlets, a village is regarded as electrified if 10 according to cent of its families and public puts akin to faculties, panchayat place of job and well being centre have access to electricity.
Having fulfilled that promise, the PM took to Twitter in a large approach. "28th April 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever. I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity," he said in a series of tweets.
At the time of Modi's announcement in August 2015, information showed 18,452 villages with out power. When paintings on village electrification started, another 1,275 villages have been discovered to be with out access to electricity. Some 1,200 villages are uninhabited and 35 have been notified as grazing reserves.
"Village electrification means that the infrastructure to supply power has now reached certain parts of the village. The next step should be to focus on providing connection to all households and ensuring adequate power supply to these homes," former power secretary P Uma Shankar said.
While villages have the power infrastructure, it's now up to families to hunt a connection and for state governments to ensure supply. "Village electrification and household electrification are different things. It is up to the people to seek a connection," added R V Shahi, another former power secretary.
After electrifying all villages, the true problem now is to feed power to every household in the ones — certainly, all — villages, a role being undertaken throughout the Saubhagya scheme.
Data on the legitimate website for the scheme showed that during mid-October 2017, of 18 crore rural families, round 82 according to cent or 14.eight crore have been electrified. But there used to be large variation across states, with the ones akin to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh appearing 100 according to cent coverage, while simplest 55 according to cent of the families in Uttar Pradesh and 48 according to cent in Jharkhand have been electrified.
The seeds of 100 according to cent village electrification have been sowed with the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJUY), a scheme with a projected outlay of Rs 76,000 crore, that Modi had launched on July 25, 2015. This scheme drew from Modi's a hit experiment as Gujarat chief minister to separate farm and household feeders in rural areas to ensure 24x7 power to families and confident supply to farmers.
One of the important thing objectives of the DDUGJUY used to be to achieve 100 according to cent village electrification. It additionally envisaged isolating feeders, strengthening distribution community, metering at all levels and putting in micro grid and off-grid distribution networks.
This way that each one 597,464 inhabited villages within the country now have access to power, pleasing a promise the PM had made on August 15, 2015, when he introduced that each one unelectrified villages would get power over the following 1,000 days.
The ultimate inhabited village to be powered throughout the off-grid gadget — remoted supply networks, mostly with solar power plants — used to be Pakol, additionally in Manipur.
While elementary infrastructure akin to distribution transformer and features want to be set up in inhabited localities, including Dalit hamlets, a village is regarded as electrified if 10 according to cent of its families and public puts akin to faculties, panchayat place of job and well being centre have access to electricity.
Having fulfilled that promise, the PM took to Twitter in a large approach. "28th April 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever. I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity," he said in a series of tweets.
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— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1524977890000At the time of Modi's announcement in August 2015, information showed 18,452 villages with out power. When paintings on village electrification started, another 1,275 villages have been discovered to be with out access to electricity. Some 1,200 villages are uninhabited and 35 have been notified as grazing reserves.
"Village electrification means that the infrastructure to supply power has now reached certain parts of the village. The next step should be to focus on providing connection to all households and ensuring adequate power supply to these homes," former power secretary P Uma Shankar said.
While villages have the power infrastructure, it's now up to families to hunt a connection and for state governments to ensure supply. "Village electrification and household electrification are different things. It is up to the people to seek a connection," added R V Shahi, another former power secretary.
After electrifying all villages, the true problem now is to feed power to every household in the ones — certainly, all — villages, a role being undertaken throughout the Saubhagya scheme.
Data on the legitimate website for the scheme showed that during mid-October 2017, of 18 crore rural families, round 82 according to cent or 14.eight crore have been electrified. But there used to be large variation across states, with the ones akin to Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh appearing 100 according to cent coverage, while simplest 55 according to cent of the families in Uttar Pradesh and 48 according to cent in Jharkhand have been electrified.
The seeds of 100 according to cent village electrification have been sowed with the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJUY), a scheme with a projected outlay of Rs 76,000 crore, that Modi had launched on July 25, 2015. This scheme drew from Modi's a hit experiment as Gujarat chief minister to separate farm and household feeders in rural areas to ensure 24x7 power to families and confident supply to farmers.
One of the important thing objectives of the DDUGJUY used to be to achieve 100 according to cent village electrification. It additionally envisaged isolating feeders, strengthening distribution community, metering at all levels and putting in micro grid and off-grid distribution networks.
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