A total of 34 more villages were electrified in Chhattisgarh during the week ending January 31, 2016, officials have stated.
Nationally, a total of 238 villages have been electrified across the country during the last week between January 25 to 31, 2016 under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram JyotiYojna (DDUGJY).
Out of these electrified villages, 2 villages belong to Assam, 3 villages to Bihar, 40 to Jharkhand, 34 to Chhattisgarh, 143 in Odisha, 07 in Rajasthan, 3 in Tripura, 5 in Uttar Pradesh and one village fall in the State of Madhya Pradesh.
In view of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to nation on Independence Day, the Central government has decided to electrify remaining 18,452 unelectrified 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.
During 2015-16, 4,781 villages have been electrified till date. Out of remaining 13,671 villages, 10,690 villages are to be electrified through grid, 1998 villages are to be electrified through off-grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 983 villages are to be electrified by state governments on their own.
Total 1654 villages were electrified during April 2015 to August 14, 2015 and after taking initiative by Central government for taking it on mission mode, 3127 additional villages have been electrified from August 15, 2015 to January 31, 2016.
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, officials stated.