Lok Sabha Question No. 558 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-02-04
Subject: Achievements under DDUGJY
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: Dibyendu Adhikari

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.558 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.02.2021

ACHIEVEMENTS UNDER DDUGJY

558. SHRI DIBYENDU ADHIKARI:

Will the Minister of POWER

be pleased to state:

(a) the  details  of  the  achievements  made  under  Deendayal  Upadhyaya  Gram  Jyoti Yojana  (DDUGJY)  along  with  the  village  infrastructure  created  and  the  number  of villages electrified thereunder in the country;

(b) whether any deficiencies in creation of infrastructure and the implementation of the DDUGJY has come to the notice of the Union Government; and

- (c) if so, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR POWER, NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

(SHRI  R.K. SINGH)

(a) : Government  of  India  had  launched  Deendayal  Upadhyaya  Gram  Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in December, 2014 for rural electrification works across the country. As  reported  by  the  States,  all  the  inhabited  un-electrified  census  villages  stand electrified  on  28 th April,  2018  across  the  country  under  DDUGJY.  A  total  of  18,374 villages  were  electrified  under  the  scheme.  Details  of  infrastructure  created  under 'DDUGJY new projects' category  (upto December, 2020) are as under:

Sl No

|   No | item                                  | No/Ckm         |
|------|---------------------------------------|----------------|
|    1 | Sub-stations (including augmentation) | 3805 no        |
|    2 | Distribution Transformers             | 3,68,991 no    |
|    3 | Feeder Segregation                    | 1,23,975 Ckm   |
|    4 | 11 KV lines                           | 1,14,877 Ckm   |
|    5 | LT lines                              | 2,79,386 Ckm   |
|    6 | 33 KV & 66 KV lines                   | 21,401 Ckm     |
|    7 | Consumer Energy Meters                | 1,50,27,186 no |
|    8 | Distribution Transformers Meters      | 2,12,153 no    |
|    9 | 11kV feeder meters                    | 13,246 no      |

………2.

(b) & (c) : Government  of  India  have  appointed  REC  as  the  nodal  agency  for  the scheme.  As  per  the  scheme  guidelines,  the  nodal  agency  shall  monitor  physical  and financial  progress  of  the  projects  including  quality  of  works  through  a  three  tier mechanism of (i) quality control of the turnkey contractor, (ii) quality control of the PIA through  Project  Management  Agency  (PMA)  and  (iii)  quality  control  exercised  by  the nodal agency i.e. REC.

Till  31.12.2020,  under  DDUGJY  3,56,847  defects  have  been  reported  by REC quality monitors to PIAs/DISCOMs out of which 2,84,595 defects have been rectified by the PIA/DISCOMs. The State-wise details are at Annexure.

In order to conduct inspections and rectification in an efficient manner, an online quality portal 'Sakshya' has been devised by the nodal agency for uploading of observations by quality monitoring agencies and submission of  compliances  by DISCOMs/PIAs.

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ANNEXURE ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (b) & (c) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.

558 TO BE ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 04.02.2021.

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State-wise  details  of  defects  observed  and  rectified  under  DDUGJY  New Projects   (status as on 31.12.2020)

| Sl. No.                | State/UT Name      | Defects Observed   |   Defects rectified |
|------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
| 1                      | Andhra Pradesh     | 19481              |               19336 |
| 2                      | Arunachala Pradesh | 7556               |                5578 |
| 3 Assam                |                    | 2816               |                 396 |
| 4                      | Bihar              | 3958               |                2401 |
| 5 Chhattisgarh         | 10043              |                    |                9858 |
| 6 Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 21                 |                    |                   0 |
| 7 Gujarat              |                    | 26414              |               26414 |
| 8                      | Haryana            | 2369               |                1588 |
| 9 Himachal Pradesh     | 3042               |                    |                 715 |
| 10 Jammu &             | Kashmir 2433       |                    |                 537 |
| 11 Jharkhand           | 21453              |                    |                8363 |
| 12 Karnataka           |                    | 19897              |               16225 |
| 13 Kerala              |                    | 1780               |                1780 |
| 14 Madhya Pradesh      |                    | 57501              |               46366 |
| 15 Maharashtra         | 36524              |                    |               36426 |
| 16 Meghalaya           | 5845               |                    |                5836 |
| 17 Mizoram             |                    | 448                |                 108 |
| 18 Nagaland            |                    | 1026               |                   0 |
| 19 Odisha              | 8598               |                    |                4720 |
| 20 Puducherry          | 23                 |                    |                   0 |
| 21 Punjab              |                    | 338                |                  72 |
| 22 Rajasthan           |                    | 81919              |               63615 |
| 23 Tamil               | Nadu               | 1793               |                1618 |
| 24                     | Telangana          | 9196               |                7432 |
| 25 Tripura             |                    | 269                |                 240 |
| 26 Uttar               | Pradesh            | 20832              |               18204 |
| 27                     | Uttarakhand        | 5422               |                3428 |
| 28                     | West Bengal        | 5850               |                3339 |
|                        | Total              | 356847             |              284595 |

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