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five years. Rural Electrification Corporation(REC) is the
nodal agency for the scheme.
Under the scheme 90% capital subsidy would be provided
for overall cost of the project for provision of:
Rural Electricity Distribution Backbone (REDB) with at
least one 33/11 kV(or 66/11kV) substation in each block
Village Electrification Infrastructure (VEl) with at least
one distribution transformer in each village/habitation.
Decentralized Distribution Generation (DDG)
Systems where grid supply is either not feasible or not
cost-effective.
Since April, 2005, till 25th January, 2008, 45,602 villages
have been electrified under RGGVY, 25,087 villages have
been intensively electrified, 22,87,016 rural households
(including 18,76,216 BPL households) have been released
connections. Installation of Franchisee System to make
rural electricity distribution business revenue sustainable
is mandatory under the scheme. Franchisees' are in place
in 14 states in 73,422 villages.
CONTINUATION OF RAJIV GANDHI GRAMEEN
VIDYUTIKARAN YOJANA IN 11TH PLAN PERIOD
The continuation of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran
Yojana has been approved by the Government in the 11 th
Plan for attaining the goal of providing access to electricity
to all households, electrification of about 1.15 lakh
un-electrified villages and electricity connections to
2.34 crore BPL households. The approval has been
accorded for capital subsidy of Rs.28000 crore during the
11th Plan period, at this stage.
Generation Performance
Generation during the year 2007-08 is targeted at
710.00 BU i.e. growth of 7.0% over generation target of
663 BU for the previous year.
In the current financial year during period
Apr’07-Jan’08 the actual generation was 586.03 BU
against 551.54 BU generated during corresponding
period of previous financial year representing a growth
rate of about 6.25%. Loss of generation due to shortage
(mainly gas) was of the order of 27.42 BU. But for this,
growth rate would have been about 11.2%.
Overall PLF of thermal power stations during the period
April 07-Jan ’08 in current financial year has been 77.7%
against 76.6% in the corresponding period of last year.
The PLF of central generating stations has improved
to 86.0% during April 07-Jan ’08 from 83.4% during
corresponding period of previous year.
New Hydro Policy
The New Hydro Policy has been approved by the Govt.
on 3 rd January’ 08
Hon’ble Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh meeting the Delegates at the Conference of Chief Ministers organised
by Ministry of Power at New Delhi
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