Uninterrupted Supply of Electricity
The Jyoti Gram Yojana (JGY) is an initiative introduced by the Government of Gujarat in the year 2003 to make available three phase quality power supply for 24 hours to all the 18065 villages and also more than 16000 suburbs attached to the villages of Gujarat for non-agricultural activities. This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of state for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge) in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
The Minister further stated that the scheme involved laying of a parallel rural distribution network across the state to separate agricultural consumers to facilitate load management and regulation over agricultural consumption without affecting power supply to other consumers by laying 78,454 Kilometers of new lines and 18,724 new transformer centres. At present there are 2495 Nos. of Jyotigram Feeders & 5767 Nos. of Agriculture feeders in the state as on March 2014.
The Minister further stated that in the budget announcement 2014-15, a scheme namely ‘Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana’ for feeder separation to augment power supply to the rural areas has been envisaged with an initial sum of Rs. 500 crores during the current year, the Minister added.
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