A total of 451 villages now stand electrified in Chhattisgarh out of 1080, officials informed.
Nationally, a total of 327 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (August 1 to 7, 2016 ) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).
Out of these electrified villages, 7 villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh, 12 to Assam, 10 to Bihar, 4 to Chattisgarh, 68 to Jharkhand, 4 to Madhya Pradesh, 11 to Manipur, 136 to Meghalaya, 8 to Nagaland, 24 to Odisha, 6 to Rajasthan, 2 to Tripura, 31 to Uttar Pradesh and 1 each to Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka and Mizoram.
In view of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation, on the Independence Day last year, the Central Government has decided to electrify remaining 18,452 un-electrified villages within 1000 days i.e. by May 1, 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.
A total of 9,653 villages have been electrified till date. Out of remaining 8,799 villages, 525 villages are uninhabited. 5,425 villages are to be electrified through grid, 2,620 villages to be electrified through off-grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 229 villages are to be electrified by respective State Government.
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.