Lok Sabha Question No. 700 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-23
Subject: Electrification of Schools
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RAHUL KASWAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 700 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23 RD  JULY, 2018

## Electrification of Schools

## †700.   SHRI RAHUL KASWAN:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that 40% schools in the country are not electrified and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise including Rajasthan;
- (b) the number of schools electrified in the country during the last three years, State/UT/Year-wise;
- (c) whether it is also a fact that in Churu district of Rajasthan every schools has been electrified with the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Fund; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

- (a) As  per  Unified  District  Information  System  for  Education  (UDISE),  2015-16,  61.67% elementary  schools  are  having  electricity  connection;  and  89.65%  secondary  schools  and  92.88% higher secondary  schools  have  electricity. State/UT-wise  details of schools having  electricity connection are at Annexure-I.

(b) to (d) Under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme, the Central Government supported States and  Union  Territories  for  creation  and  augmentation  of  infrastructure  facilities  including  internal electrification of elementary schools, based on the gap determined by UDISE and proposals received from respective State/UT, according to the Budgetary provision available for the scheme. Since the inception of SSA in 2001 till 2017-18, 1,90,470 government elementary schools have been provided internal  electrification  till  March,  2018.  State/UT-wise  number  of  government  elementary  schools electrified under SSA during last three years is at Annexure-II.

Infrastructure  facilities  in  schools  are  also  provided  in  convergence  with  other  schemes/ programmes  of  other  Ministries/Departments  in  Central  Government/State  Government.  Under Deendayal  Upadhyay  Gram  Jyoti  Yojana,  access  to  electricity  is  provided  in  villages/rural  areas. Accordingly,  the  schools  that  require  electricity  service  connection  may  approach  the  State  Power

Utility and the electricity service connections are effected by the concerned States Power Utility as per the extant rules. Data  on  the  schools  electrified  in  the  country  with  the  Member  of  Parliament  Local  Area

Development Fund is not maintained centrally.

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## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  700 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23 RD  JULY, 2018 ASKED BY SHRI RAHUL KASWAN REGARDING ELECTRIFICATION OF SCHOOLS

Statement showing State/UT-wise percentage of schools having electricity connection

| Sl. No.   | State/UTs                |   Percentage Elementary schools having electricity connection |   Percentage Secondary schools with electricity |   Percentage Higher Secondary Schools with electricity |
|-----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | ANDAMAN &NICOBAR ISLANDS |                                                         90    |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 2         | ANDHRA PRADESH           |                                                         93.42 |                                           97.43 |                                                  95.71 |
| 3         | ARUNACHAL PRADESH        |                                                         39.01 |                                           87.95 |                                                  96.13 |
| 4         | ASSAM                    |                                                         22.23 |                                           73.84 |                                                  86.8  |
| 5         | BIHAR                    |                                                         36.74 |                                           57.61 |                                                  65.03 |
| 6         | CHANDIGARH               |                                                        100    |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 7         | CHHATTISGARH             |                                                         71.79 |                                           89.01 |                                                  94.55 |
| 8         | DADRA &NAGARHAVELI       |                                                        100    |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 9         | DAMAN&DIU                |                                                        100    |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 10        | DELHI                    |                                                        100    |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 11        | GOA                      |                                                         99.86 |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 12        | GUJARAT                  |                                                         99.7  |                                           99.91 |                                                 100    |
| 13        | HARYANA                  |                                                         98.99 |                                           99.82 |                                                  99.81 |
| 14        | HIMACHAL PRADESH         |                                                         96.23 |                                           99.66 |                                                  99.82 |
| 15        | JAMMU &KASHMIR           |                                                         29.91 |                                           82.86 |                                                  94.82 |
| 16        | JHARKHAND                |                                                         18.38 |                                           56.5  |                                                  77.3  |
| 17        | KARNATAKA                |                                                         98.02 |                                           99.99 |                                                  95.68 |
| 18        | KERALA                   |                                                         97.36 |                                           99.48 |                                                  99.69 |
| 19        | LAKSHADWEEP              |                                                        100    |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 20        | MADHYA PRADESH           |                                                         26.66 |                                           79.41 |                                                  87.88 |
| 21        | MAHARASHTRA              |                                                         93.8  |                                           97.1  |                                                  98.35 |
| 22        | MANIPUR                  |                                                         38.25 |                                           86.08 |                                                  97.62 |
| 23        | MEGHALAYA                |                                                         24.55 |                                           73.39 |                                                  93.33 |
| 24        | MIZORAM                  |                                                         73.44 |                                           89.92 |                                                  94.93 |
| 25        | NAGALAND                 |                                                         51.23 |                                           87.97 |                                                  96.57 |
| 26        | ODISHA                   |                                                         32.07 |                                           70.09 |                                                  87.22 |
| 27        | PUDUCHERRY               |                                                        100    |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 28        | PUNJAB                   |                                                         99.94 |                                           99.98 |                                                  99.98 |
| 29        | RAJASTHAN                |                                                         56.49 |                                           91.3  |                                                  93.17 |
| 30        | SIKKIM                   |                                                         83.97 |                                          100    |                                                 100    |
| 31        | TAMIL NADU               |                                                         99.05 |                                           99.92 |                                                  99.91 |
| 32        | TELANGANA                |                                                         91.47 |                                           97.38 |                                                  93.48 |
| 33        | TRIPURA                  |                                                         29.77 |                                           85.6  |                                                  98.54 |
| 34        | UTTAR PRADESH            |                                                         53.32 |                                           79.47 |                                                  83.25 |
| 35        | UTTARAKHAND              |                                                         78.75 |                                           91.76 |                                                  96.44 |
| 36        | WEST BENGAL              |                                                         74.88 |                                           97.28 |                                                  98.42 |
|           | All India                |                                                         61.67 |                                           89.65 |                                                  92.88 |

Source: UDISE, 2015-16

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (b)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.  700 TO BE ANSWERED ON 23 RD  JULY, 2018 ASKED BY SHRI RAHUL KASWAN REGARDING ELECTRIFICATION OF SCHOOLS

Statement showing details of State/UT-wise and year-wise number of government elementary schools electrified under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan during last three years

| SL. No   | State                    | Number of schools electrified during last three years   | Number of schools electrified during last three years   | Number of schools electrified during last three years   |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|          |                          | 2015-16                                                 | 2016-17                                                 | 2017-18                                                 |
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh           | 223                                                     | 1168                                                    | 2595                                                    |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh        | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 3        | Assam                    | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 4        | Bihar                    | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh             | 804                                                     | 105                                                     | 19                                                      |
| 6        | Goa                      | 42                                                      | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 7        | Gujarat                  | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 8        | Haryana                  | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 9        | Himachal Pradesh         | 241                                                     | 68                                                      | 39                                                      |
| 10       | Jammu &Kashmir           | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 11       | Jharkhand                | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 12       | Karnataka                | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 13       | Kerala                   | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 14       | Madhya Pradesh           | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 15       | Maharashtra              | 316                                                     | 112                                                     | 519                                                     |
| 16       | Manipur                  | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 17       | Meghalaya                | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 18       | Mizoram                  | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 19       | Nagaland                 | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 20       | Odisha                   | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 21       | Punjab                   | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 22       | Rajasthan                | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 23       | Sikkim                   | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu               | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 25       | Telangana                | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 26       | Tripura                  | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 27       | Uttar Pradesh            | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 28       | Uttarakhand              | 370                                                     | 0                                                       | 50                                                      |
| 29       | West Bengal              | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 30       | Andaman &Nicobar Islands | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 31       | Chandigarh               | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 32       | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 33       | Daman &Diu               | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 34       | Delhi                    | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 35       | Lakshadweep              | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| 36       | Puducherry               | 0                                                       | 0                                                       | 0                                                       |
| Total    | SSA                      | 1996                                                    | 1453                                                    | 3222                                                    |

Source: Quarterly Progress Reports furnished by States and UTs.