(a) the amount allocated by the Government for rural electrification in Jharkhand and Maharashtra during the last three years;
(b) the development works carried out in Jharkhand and Maharashtra during the last three years;
(c) whether the works under the said scheme are being delayed; and
(d) the reaction of the Government thereto and the remedial steps taken by it in this regard?
THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR POWER AND
NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY
( SHRI R. K. SINGH )
(a) : Projects including RE component worth Rs.2872.22 crore and Rs.8521.67 crore have been sanctioned under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) for Maharashtra and Jharkhand, respectively. Based on completion of milestones of projects, and fulfillment of conditionalities, the funds disbursed for Rural electrification for the States of Jharkhand and Maharashtra during the last three years, are as under:
Rs. in crore
Name of the State 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
Jharkhand 9.42 - 326.78
Maharashtra - 43.27 256.62
b) : Based on the information furnished by the States, the achievement of electrification of villages (UEV), intensive electrification of electrified villages (IEV) and release of free electricity service connections to Below Poverty Line (BPL) households carried out under DDUGJY in the States of Jharkhand and Maharashtra during the last three years, are as under:
Name of the State 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
UEV IEV BPL UEV IEV BPL UEV IEV BPL
Jharkhand 161 272 12022 750 14 6314 1104 25 2687
Maharashtra - 341 6702 - 8 59 - - -
UEV - Un-electrified Villages; IEV - Intensive Electrified Villages; BPL - Below Poverty Line
(c) & (d) : The Government had set a target of electrification of balance 18,452 villages before May, 2018. While Maharashtra had no balance un-electrified census village in this list, all 2,467 inhabited villages in Jharkhand have already been electrified.
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