Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY)
It was launched by the Ministry of Power. The earlier scheme for rural electrification viz. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) has been subsumed in this new scheme as its rural electrification component.
Aim:
The Yojana also includes the components:
- To separate agriculture and non agriculture feeders facilitating judicious rostering of supply to agricultural and non-agricultural consumers in rural areas and
- Strengthening and augmentation of sub transmission and distribution infrastructure in rural areas, including metering of distribution transformers/feeders/consumers.
The scheme would help in:
- Improvement in hours of power supply in rural areas.
- Reduction in peak load.
- Improvement in billed energy based on metered consumption.
- Providing access to electricity to rural households.
The scheme has an outlay of Rs 76,000 crore out of which the Centre committed to provide a grant of Rs.63,000 crore.
