Saubhagya Yojana and Deen Dayal Gram Jyoti Yojana

Saubhagya Yojana and Deen Dayal Gram Jyoti Yojana
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF POWER 

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1348
ANSWERED ON 27.07.2023

DDUGJY SCHEME
1348. SHRI SAUMITRA KHAN:
Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:
(a) the date on which Saubhagya Yojana and Deen Dayal Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDGJY) has started electrification in the country and the details of the selection process followed thereunder;
(b) whether any criteria have been fixed for the beneficiaries under the said schemes and if so, the details thereof;
(c) the number of eligible persons benefited across the country since the inception of the said schemes upto March, 2023, year and State/UT-wise, especially in West Bengal; and
(d) the details of the number of electricity connections provided to beneficiaries under the said schemes in West Bengal from 2020 to 2022 along with the total funds utilised and the amount of subsidy provided thereunder, district and year-wise?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF POWER AND NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY 

SHRI R.K. SINGH
(a) & (b) : The Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) was launched in December, 2014 by the Government of India for strengthening the distribution systems including separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders, strengthening and augmentation of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure, metering of distribution transformers/feeders/consumers electrification of villages across the country, access to electricity to rural households and providing free electricity connection to BPL households.
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Subsequently, Government of India launched Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana – SAUBHAGYA in October, 2017 with the objective of achieving universal household electrification by providing electricity connections to all un- electrified households in the country.
Under SAUBHAGYA, electricity connection was provided free of cost to all un-electrified poor households, whereas for non-poor rural households, an amount of Rs.500 was to be recovered by the DISCOMs/Power Departments from the beneficiary in ten equal installments in their subsequent electricity bills.
(c) The details of BPL households electrified from FY 2015-16 and till September, 2017 under DDUGJY State-wise (including West Bengal) are furnished at Annexure-I. Further, the details of households electrified since the launch of SAUBHAGYA in October, 2017 including additional households sanctioned under DDUGJY till 31.03.2022 State-wise (including West Bengal) are furnished at Annexure-II. Both these Schemes stand closed as on 31.03.2022.
(d) The State of West Bengal had reported 100% electrification of all willing un-electrified households under SAUBHAGYA by 31.03.2019. As per SAUBHAGYA portal, a total of 7,32,290 Nos. households were electrified in the State.
There was no upfront allocation of funds for any State/District under DDUGJY & Saubhagya scheme. Funds were released for sanctioned projects in installments based on the reported utilization of the funds released in the previous installments and fulfillment of stipulated conditions. The details of grant released under Saubhagya and DDUGJY (including RE and additional infra) respectively from FY 2020 to 2022 to West Bengal State is as follows:

Scheme

FY 2020-21

FY 2021-22

Total

DDUGJY

149

509

658

Saubhagya

16

46

62

ANNEXURE-I
ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1348 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 27.07.2023

State wise Achievement of total BPL Households electrified
from FY 2015 till September 2017 under DDUGJY

Sl. No.

State

Total BPL Households electrified

1.

Andhra Pradesh

664851

2.

Assam

101537

3.

Bihar

1976832

4.

Chhattisgarh

63756

5.

Gujarat

813

6.

Jammu &Kashmir

1133

7.

Jharkhand

12391

8.

Karnataka

98821

9.

Kerala

24993

10.

Madhya Pradesh

561262

11.

Maharashtra

59

12.

Meghalaya

95

13.

Mizoram

447

14.

Nagaland

507

15.

Odisha

103857

16.

Rajasthan

149854

17.

Sikkim

1850

18.

Tamil Nadu

1976

19.

Telangana

849

20.

Tripura

41759

21.

Uttar Pradesh

1082986

22.

Uttarakhand

46

23.

West Bengal

34450

Total

4925124

ANNEXURE-II
ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1348 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 27.07.2023

State-wise electrification of households since launch of Saubhagya Scheme including Additional Households achievement under DDUGJY ………………… Click read more.

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