Chief Minister Raghubar Das today said that by the year 2014, only about 38 lakh households out of 68 lakh households could access electricity. In four years, work has been done to provide electricity to rest 30 lakh houses of the State. The CM was speaking in the review meeting on the progress of the work of the Energy Department (Transmission Line) projects along with all the DFOs at Project Building here on Saturday.
The CM said that the Government has worked to provide electricity to 100 per cent of the State's households. Every house has been given electricity, but there are some problems coming in 24x7 uninterrupted power supplies. It is one of the highest priorities of the Government to provide uninterrupted electricity.
While giving instructions to the officials of the Department of Energy and Forest Department, the CM asked them to solve the matters due to lack of forest clearance till the end of June 2019. Officers of the Department of Energy, Department of Forest and Deputy Commissioners establish mutual coordination and complete the work of forest clearance by the end of June, he said.
The CM instructed the officers that of the energy department to expedite the work related to power transmission. He asked officials to immediately solve problems of undeclared power cuts and technical issues.
Das said that electricity has been provided to all the poor families along with Anganwadi, School and Community Health Centers etc, for social progress. He said that without electricity development cannot be possible. “Our state will be able to move forward in all sectors only if we are able to provide uninterrupted power for 24 hours,” he added.
Officials in the meeting told that work on 29 major projects involving transmission are underway; they will be completed by October.
The meeting was attended by Additional Chief Secretary Indushekhar Chaturvedi, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Sunil Kumar Barnwal, Energy Secretary Vandana Dadel, Chief Forest Conservator Sanjay Kumar, MD of Power Distribution Corporation Rahul Puwar and others senior officials.
Meanwhile, holding another review meeting on the progress of PM Kisan Samman Nishi scheme in the State the CM asked officials to upload the list of newly added farmers as soon as possible after the first installment under the scheme. The installment of this scheme will be sent to the farmers on June 19 throughout the State. The farmers who have got the first installment, they will get the second installment the same day. For this, programmes will be organised across the State.
Das said that work is being done to provide the sum to farmers before kharif crop. This will help the farmers in the purchase of seeds, manure, pesticides etc. The amount of approximately `1,200 crores from the scheme will come in the economy of the village of Jharkhand.
The Chief Minister said that soon the installment of Chief Minister Krishi Ashirvad Yojna will also be given to the farmers. Both these schemes will not only benefit the farmers, but also the economy of the village. Directing all the Deputy Commissioners, he said that the work of data entry should be completed soon.
CEO of PMKSN scheme, Vivek Agarwal, expressed his happiness at the progress of the scheme in Jharkhand and said that the State Government is getting good support.