Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will launch 24x7 power supply in Ujjain district on Saturday. With this, Ujjain will become 18th district to have this facility. The abhiyan will be launched in 17th district, Rajgarh, and 18th district, Ujjain, on May 11. Earlier, this facility had been made available in Jabalpur, Mandla, Shahdol, Anuppur, Umaria, Burhanpur, Ratlam, Dhar, Bhopal,Balaghat, Alirajpur, Sheopur, Panna, Mandsaur, Rewa and Hoshangabad districts.
Chouhan will launch Atal Jyoti Abhiyan in Ujjain district on May 11 at 2 pm at Ghattiya in Ujjain district. A consumer and panchayat convention will also be organised on the occasion.
A sum of Rs. 148.3 crore has been spent on implementation of Atal Jyoti Abhiyan in Ujjain district. Under it, total 380 feeders have been separated. It will benefit 1,096 villages. Major infrastructure works include setting up of 6 new 33/11 KV power sub-stations. Apart from capacity augmentation of 21 power transformers, 20 new transformers have also been installed. Under the 108.85 kilometre long 33 KV lines and 2,810 km long 11 KV lines and 2,243 km long aerial bunches lT line have also been laid. As many as 3,072 distribution 25 MW capacity transformers have been installed. This has led to increase in number of domestic consumers by 15,263 and 20,210 domestic connections.
Ujjain district's population is 19,86,597. It has 1,096 villages. There are 3,53,950 power consumers in the district. Number of permanent agriculture pump consumers in the district are 64,358. Power load in the district is 467 MW per day. It has 135 sub-stations of 33/11 KV and 488 of 11 KV and length of 33 KV feeders is 1557 kilometres, 11 KV lines 766 km, low-and low-tension lines 13 thousand 865 kilometres.
Supply of power for 24 hours through Atal Jyoti Abhiyan will bring about prosperity and promote agriculture & economic growth and communication industries. People's living standard will improve with increase in educational, health facilities and availability of more jobs. With increase in facilities in villages, villagers' income will also increase through establishment of small and cottage industries. Under metre data acquisition system, reading on 33 KV and 11 KV feeders can be taken through remote control at central server. This will help keep constant watch over availability of power in various areas of the State.