Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana is a

Government of India The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ...

scheme designed to provide continuous electricity supply to rural India. The

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...

plans to invest for

rural electrification Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. Rural communities are suffering from colossal market failures as the national grids fall short of their demand for electricity. As of 2017, over 1 billion ...

under this scheme. The scheme replaced the existing Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana. The scheme will enable to initiate much awaited reforms in the rural areas. It focuses on feeder separation (rural households & agricultural) and strengthening of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure including metering at all levels in rural areas. This will help in providing round the clock power to rural households and adequate power to agricultural consumers. The earlier scheme for rural electrification viz. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana has been subsumed in the new scheme as its rural electrification component. The Ministry of Power has launched a new app, GARV-II app to provide real-time data of all six lakh villages of the country. The app is envisaged to ensure transparency in the implementation of rural electrification programme. The new app will also enable the citizens to participate in the developmental works and can give their feedback and inputs related to the rural electrification programme. The participation of Citizens will enable public scrutiny of the rural electrification programmes. In addition, the village-wise works sanctioned under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana has been mapped to scrutinise the progress of work carried out under the project in each village The deadline for the Centre's rural electrification programme was May 2018. However, it was achieved before the deadline on April 28, with the electrification of

Leisang Leisang is a village in Kangpokpi district in the Indian state of Manipur. It is in a mountainous location and is inaccessible to vehicles; in April 2018 it was the last village in the country to be electrified. Population At the 2011 Census of In ...

village in

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of ...

. Prime Minister of India,

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 ...

tweeted "Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever! I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity." Despite this, several news reports claimed that the numbers were inflated, and villages were electrified only on paper.

References

External links

Prime Minister to Launch Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana in Patna
{{Energy Ministries and Departments of India Government schemes in India Rural development in India Modi administration initiatives Electric power in India Memorials to Deendayal Upadhyay Ministry of Power (India)