Government of  India has approved the “Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana” (DDUGJY) on 3^rd December, 2014 for:            

 

(i)     Separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders facilitating judicious restoring of supply to agricultural & non-agriculture consumers in the rural areas; and

 

(ii)    Strengthening and augmentation of sub-transmission & distribution  infrastructure in rural areas, including metering of distribution transformers/feeders/consumers.

 

(iii)   Rural electrification, as per CCEA approval dated 01.08.2013 for completion of the targets laid down under RGGVY for 12^th and 13^th Plans by carrying forward the approved outlay for RGGVY to DDUGJY.

 

            This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

 

            The components at (i) and (ii) of the above scheme will have an estimated outlay of Rs. 43033 crore including a budgetary support of Rs. 33453 crore from Government of India during the entire implementation period. 

 

The funding mechanism under Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, are as under:

Agency	Nature of support	Quantum of support (Percentage of project cost)
		Other than special Category States	Special Category States #
Govt. of India	Grant	60	85
Discom Contribution*	Own fund	10	5
Lender (Fls/Banks)	Loan	30	10
Additional Grant from GOI on achievement of prescribed milestones	Grant	50% of total loan component (30%) i.e.15 %	50% of total loan component (10%) i.e 5%
Maximum Grant by GOI (including additional grant on achievement of prescribed milestones)	Grant	75%	90%

#  Special Category State (All North Eastern States including Sikkim J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand).

*  Minimum contribution by Discom(s) is 10% (5% in case of Special Category States). However, Discom(s) contribution can go up to 40% (15% in case of Special Category States), if they do not intend to avail loan. In case, the Discom(s) do not avail loan the maximum eligible  additional grant would be 15% (5% in case of Special Category States) on achievement of prescribed   milestones. The loan component would be provided by REC or by other Fls/Banks.

100% grant shall be provided by GOI towards expenditure incurred on activities for bridging the missing link of National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN), creation of Rural Electrification Data Hub at Rural Electrification Corporation & Project Management Agency ( PMA) as per provision in the Scheme.

 

            The Minister further stated that the on the basis of the detailed guidelines on DDUGJY, State Governments are to submit DPRs.   The scheme of RGGVY as approved by CCEA for continuation in 12^th and 13^th Plans is subsumed in DDUGJY as a separate rural electrification component  for which CCEA has already approved the scheme cost of Rs. 39275 crore including a budgetary support of Rs. 35447 crore. The unspent part of outlay will be carried forward to the new scheme of DDUGJY.

 

            In a reply to another question, regarding DDUGJY, the Minister informed the House about the salient features of DDUGJY:

 

I.          The existing Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) has been subsumed in the new scheme and the unspent amount of RGGVY will be carried forward to DDUGJY.

 

II.        All Discoms are eligible for financial assistance under the scheme.

 

III.       Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) will be the nodal agency for implementation of the scheme.

 

            Projects under the above two schemes will be completed within a period of 24 months from the date of issue of Letter of Award (LoA) by the distribution utility.

 

 

RM/RS-  USQ4289 - LS