Saubhagya Scheme or Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana was an

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project to provide

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to the households. The project was announced in September 2017 by Prime Minister

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, 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
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to 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

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, 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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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

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s 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.

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Official website

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