Saubhagya Scheme or Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana was an
Indian government
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project to provide
electricity
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to the households.
The project was announced in September 2017 by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament fro ...
, who said that the aim was to complete the electrification process by December 2018. Certain households identified via the
Socio-economic and Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 will be eligible for free electricity connections, while others will be charged Rs. 500.
On 16 November 2017, the government launched a websit
saubhagya.gov.into disseminate information about the scheme. The total outlay of the project is Rs. 16, 320 crore while the Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) is Rs. 12,320 crore.
The beneficiary household will get One
LED lights
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and can be significantly more efficient than mos ...
, one DC power plug. It also includes the Repair and Maintenance of Meter Only (R&M) for 5 years. The scheme was closed in March 2022 since the target of 100% electrification was met.
The logo of Saubhagya (pradhan mantri sahaj bijli har ghar yojana) scheme and creative of first phase design by Mohid Ahmad under the supervision of
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Educational institutes
* Regional Engineering College, colleges of engineering and technology education in India
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limited.
Responses
91% of rural Indian households have received electricity access by June 2019. Commentators have noted that while the scheme would provide the capacity for electricity in poor and rural households, it did not solve the problem of
power outage
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and made no provision for cases where households could not afford electricity bills.
In October 2018, Bihar completed its target of 100 per cent electrification of willing households under Saubhagya scheme.
As it completed 4 years of implementation, 2.82 crore households have been given electricity access as on March, 2021.
See also
* Common man empowerment:
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DigiLocker
DigiLocker is an Indian digitization online service provided by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India under its Digital India initiative. DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Aadhaar holder ...
(easier access to online identity proof and services)
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Har ghar jal
Har Ghar Jal (translation: ''Water To Every Household'') is a scheme initiated by the Ministry of Jal Shakti of Government of India under Jal Jeevan Mission in 2019 with the aim to provide tap water to every rural household by 2024.
History ...
(water connection for each house)
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One Nation, One Ration Card (food security card's national portability)
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Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (affordable housing for all)
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Swachh Bharat
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management. It is a restructured version of ...
(toilet for all houses)
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Ujjwala Yojana (clean cooking gas connections for all)
**Mohid Ahmad design logo o
Saubhagyascheme.
References
External links
Official websitehar ghar bijli.bsphcl.co.in status
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Electric power in India
Modi administration initiatives
2018 in India
Government schemes in India