The Jharkhand Bijli Vitaran Nigam limited (JBVNl) in an order to expedite its last mile connectivity under the Saubhagya scheme would go for mobile vans stationed in the rural areas of the State.
The vans are to be deployed in good numbers and would be fitted with all facilities required to sanction on-the-spot power connections.
Informing about the scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2017 for the country and subsequently rolled out in the State in December, JVBNl Managing Director Rahul Purwar also talked about holding specific camps in the areas still deprived of complete power connection.
“We have arranged dedicated mobile vans which would be deployed in rural areas.
The vans would be equipped with all facilities required right from accepting application to providing power connections to the applicants living without electricity.
Camps for distributing the connections would also be held in the State,” said Purwar after a review meeting held on Monday.
The power discom has also planned to go in a massive way to popularise the scheme through publicity materials such as hoardings, banners, individual level contact through anaganwadis and health workers and other modes of mass communication.
“The scheme is for providing metered connections to all household. The connection is free for financially and social weaker sections while for the rest the connection charge can be paid through easy installments.
The aim is to complete electrification of households in the State by December this year with the cost of about Rs 885 crore,” said the MD.
Prime objective of the centrally sponsored scheme is to provide 24x7 power supply to all households by March, 2019. The meeting also saw data about electrification of 17,730 remaining villages by June this year. “Till January 15th, we have managed to intensely electrifying 5997 out of total 17730 remaining villages that would be electrified intensely by June this year,” said Purwar.