Lok Sabha Question No. 900 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-17
Subject: Solar Energy Scheme
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Sumedhanand Saraswati, Pratima Bhoumik, Balak Nath

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-900

ANSWERED ON-17/09/2020

## SOLAR ENERGY SCHEME

## +900. SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARASWATI SHRI BALAK NATH

## Will the Minister of NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY be pleased to state

- (a) whether the Government proposes to provide electricity to every dhani and village in the country through solar energy scheme;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Rajasthan;
- (c) whether any norms have been prescribed to provide solar systems in farms through the said scheme;
- (d) if so, the details thereof;
- (e) the name of the companies through which the said scheme is being implemented in Rajasthan under Jaipur and Ajmer DISCOM and if so, the details thereof; and
- (f) whether any complaints have been received against these companies and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE (I/C) FOR NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY, POWER and MoS for SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

## (SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a) to (d) Government of India had launched Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana - 'Saubhagya' in  October,  2017  with  the  aim  to  achieve  universal  household  electrification  by  providing  last  mile connectivity and electricity connections to all households in rural and all poor households in urban areas across the  country  with  provision  of  solar  based  standalone  system  to  un-electrified  households  where grid extension is neither feasible nor cost effective.

All the States had declared on Saubhagya portal that all the willing un-electrified households had been electrified  as  on  31st  March,  2019,  except  18,734  households  in  LWE  affected  areas  of  Chhattisgarh. Since the launch of Saubhagya scheme, 2.63 crore households were electrified across the country up to 31.03.2019. These include over 3 lakh households electrified through solar based standalone system  The State-wise details are given at Annexure-I.

- (e) Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited has not awarded any contract for off-grid electrification under Saubhagya Scheme. The work of providing solar based standalone systems under Saubhagya Scheme in Ajmer Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited was awarded to the following companies:
1. M/s. Access Solar Limited, Hyderabad
2. M/s. UM Green Lighting Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
3. M/s. Premier Solar System (P) Ltd., Secunderabad
4. M/s. Trom Solar, Gandhinagar in JV with M/s KOSE Power
5. M/s. Novus Green Energy System Ltd., Secunderabad
6. M/s. Ganesh Electricals, Ahmedabad
7. M/s. SG Enterprises, Ranchi
8. M/s. CSA Corporation Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi in JV with M/s E-sharp Solar
9. M/s. Solex Energy Limited, Anand
10. M/s Rajasthan Electronics & Instrumentation Ltd., Jaipur
11. M/s. Kosol Energie Pvt., Ahmedabad
- (f)  No complaints have been received by the Ministry of Power against these companies.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (d) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 900 FOR 17.09.2020

State-wise households electrification as per  Saubhagya portal, since launch of the scheme i.e. 11.10.2017 to 31.03.2019

| Sl. No.   | States            |     Grid |   Off-Grid |    Total |
|-----------|-------------------|----------|------------|----------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |   181930 |          0 |   181930 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |    47089 |          0 |    47089 |
| 3         | Assam             |  1674086 |      71063 |  1745149 |
| 4         | Bihar             |  3250872 |       8169 |  3259041 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh*     |   710154 |      39243 |   749397 |
| 6         | Goa               |        0 |          0 |        0 |
| 7         | Gujarat           |    41317 |          0 |    41317 |
| 8         | Haryana           |    54681 |          0 |    54681 |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |    12891 |          0 |    12891 |
| 10        | J&K               |   379263 |       8238 |   387501 |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |  1529525 |       1183 |  1530708 |
| 12        | Karnataka         |   354943 |       2031 |   356974 |
| 13        | Kerala            |        0 |          0 |        0 |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |  1935531 |      48733 |  1984264 |
| 15        | Maharashtra       |  1499483 |      18439 |  1517922 |
| 16        | Manipur           |   102225 |        523 |   102748 |
| 17        | Meghalaya         |   195491 |       4348 |   199839 |
| 18        | Mizoram           |    25708 |       2262 |    27970 |
| 19        | Nagaland          |   132507 |          0 |   132507 |
| 20        | Odisha            |  2444839 |       7605 |  2452444 |
| 21        | Puducherry        |      912 |          0 |      912 |
| 22        | Punjab            |     3477 |          0 |     3477 |
| 23        | Rajasthan         |  1835856 |      26880 |  1862736 |
| 24        | Sikkim            |    14900 |          0 |    14900 |
| 25        | Tamil Nadu        |     2170 |          0 |     2170 |
| 26        | Telangana         |   513328 |       1756 |   515084 |
| 27        | Tripura           |   135988 |       3102 |   139090 |
| 28        | Uttar Pradesh     |  7925732 |      54836 |  7980568 |
| 29        | Uttarakhand       |   247009 |       1742 |   248751 |
| 30        | West Bengal       |   732290 |          0 |   732290 |
| Total     | Total             | 25984197 |     300153 | 26284350 |