Lok Sabha Question No. 3869 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-23
Subject: Saubhagya Yojana
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: Bhagirath Chaudhary

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3869 ANSWERED ON 23.03.2023

## SAUBHAGYA YOJANA

†3869. SHRI BHAGIRATH CHOUDHARY:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

- (a) the  date  on  which  Saubhagya  Yojana  and  Deen  Dayal  Gram  Jyoti  Yojana (DDGJY)  has  started  electrification  in  the  country  and  the  details  of  selection process thereof;
- (b) whether  any  criteria  has  been  fixed  for  the  beneficiaries  under  the  said scheme;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) the number  of  eligible persons  benefitted across the country since inception of the said scheme upto December 2022, State/UT-wise and year-wise; and
- (e) the details of the number of electricity connections provided/beneficiaries under the said scheme in Rajasthan from 2019 to 2022 along with the total funds and the amount of subsidy provided thereunder district and year-wise?

## A N S W E R

## THE MINISTER OF POWER AND NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY (SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a) to (c) : The  Deen  Dayal  Upadhyaya  Gram  Jyoti  Yojana  (DDUGJY)  was launched  in  December,  2014  by  the  Government  of  India  for  strengthening  the distribution    systems  including  separation  of  agriculture  and  non-agriculture feeders,  strengthening  and  augmentation  of  sub-transmission  &  distribution infrastructure, metering of distribution transformers/feeders/consumers electrification  of  villages  across  the  country,  access  to  electricity  to  rural households and providing free electricity connection to BPL households.

.........2.

Subsequently, Government of India launched Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar  Yojana  -  SAUBHAGYA  in  October,  2017  with  the  objective  of  achieving universal household electrification by providing electricity connections to all unelectrified households in the country.

Under SAUBHAGYA, free electricity connection, free of cost, was provided to all  un-electrified poor households, whereas for non-poor rural households, an amount of Rs.500 was to be recovered by the DISCOMs/Power Departments from the beneficiary in ten equal installments in their subsequent electricity bills.

(d) : The  details of BPL  households  electrified from FY  2015-16  and  till September, 2017 under DDUGJY are furnished at Annexure-I. Further, the details of  households  electrified  since  the  launch  of  SAUBHAGYA  in  October,  2017 including  additional  households  sanctioned  under  DDUGJY  till  31.03.2022  are furnished at Annexure-II.

(e) :   A total of 2,64,992 households were electrified  under  SAUBHAGYA including 52,206 No. of additional households sanctioned under DDUGJY (during FY 2021-22) in Rajasthan State from FY 2019 to 2022.

Rs.202  crores  and  Rs.797  crores  were  released  under  SAUBHAGYA  and DDUGJY (incl. RE and addl. infra), respectively from FY 2019 to 2022 to the State of Rajasthan.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (d) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3869 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 23.03.2023 **************

## State-wise achievement of total BPL households electrified from FY 2015 till September, 2017 under DDUGJY

| Sl. No.   | State/UT              | Total BPL households electrified   |
|-----------|-----------------------|------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh        | 664851                             |
| 2         | Assam                 | 101537                             |
| 3         | Bihar                 | 1976832                            |
| 4         | Chhattisgarh          | 63756                              |
| 5         | Gujarat               | 813                                |
| 6         | Jammu and Kashmir     | 1133                               |
| 7         | Jharkhand 12391       |                                    |
| 8         | Karnataka 98821       |                                    |
| 9         | Kerala                | 24993                              |
| 10        | Madhya Pradesh 561262 |                                    |
| 11        | Maharashtra           | 59                                 |
| 12        | Meghalaya             | 95                                 |
| 13        | Mizoram               | 447                                |
| 14        | Nagaland 507          |                                    |
| 15        | Odisha 103857         |                                    |
| 16        | Rajasthan             | 149854                             |
| 17        | Sikkim                | 1850                               |
| 18        | Tamil Nadu            | 1976                               |
| 19        | Telangana             | 849                                |
| 20        | Tripura               | 41759                              |
| 21        | Uttar Pradesh         | 1082986                            |
| 22        | Uttarakhand           | 46                                 |
| 23        | West Bengal           | 34450                              |
| Total     | Total                 | 4925124                            |

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (d) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3869 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 23.03.2023

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## State-wise electrification of households since launch of SAUBHAGYA Scheme / Additional sanctions and achievement under DDUGJY (status as on 31.03.2022)

| Sl. No.   | Name of the States/UTs   | ORIGINAL HOUSEHOLDS SANCTIONED UNDER SAUBHAGYA              | ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLDS SANCTIONED UNDER SAUBHAGYA            | ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLDS SANCTIONED UNDER SAUBHAGYA   | ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLDS SANCTIONED UNDER DDUGJY   | ADDITIONAL HOUSEHOLDS SANCTIONED UNDER DDUGJY      | Grand Total   |
|-----------|--------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|---------------|
| Sl. No.   | Name of the States/UTs   | No. of households electrified from 11.10.2017 to 31.03.2019 | No. of households electrified from 01.04.2019 to 31.03.2021 | Total households electrified as on 31.03.2021      | Additional households sanctioned                | Additional households electrified as on 31.03.2022 | Grand Total   |
| 1         | 2                        | 3                                                           | 4                                                           | 5=3+4                                              | 6                                               | 7                                                  | 8=5+7         |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh*          | 1,81,930                                                    | 0                                                           | 1,81,930                                           |                                                 |                                                    | 1,81,930      |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh        | 47,089                                                      | 0                                                           | 47,089                                             | 7859                                            | 0                                                  | 47,089        |
| 3         | Assam                    | 17,45,149                                                   | 2,00,000                                                    | 19,45,149                                          | 480249                                          | 381507                                             | 23,26,656     |
| 4         | Bihar                    | 32,59,041                                                   | 0                                                           | 32,59,041                                          |                                                 |                                                    | 32,59,041     |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh             | 7,49,397                                                    | 40,394                                                      | 7,89,791                                           | 21981                                           | 2577                                               | 7,92,368      |
| 6         | Gujarat*                 | 41,317                                                      | 0                                                           | 41,317                                             |                                                 |                                                    | 41,317        |
| 7         | Haryana                  | 54,681                                                      | 0                                                           | 54,681                                             |                                                 |                                                    | 54,681        |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh         | 12,891                                                      | 0                                                           | 12,891                                             |                                                 |                                                    | 12,891        |
| 9         | Jammu & Kashmir          | 3,77,045                                                    | 0                                                           | 3,77,045                                           |                                                 |                                                    | 3,77,045      |
| 10        | Jharkhand                | 15,30,708                                                   | 2,00,000                                                    | 17,30,708                                          |                                                 |                                                    | 17,30,708     |
| 11        | Karnataka                | 3,56,974                                                    | 26,824                                                      | 3,83,798                                           |                                                 |                                                    | 3,83,798      |
| 12        | Ladakh                   | 10,456                                                      | 0                                                           | 10,456                                             |                                                 |                                                    | 10,456        |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh           | 19,84,264                                                   | 0                                                           | 19,84,264                                          | 99722                                           | 0                                                  | 19,84,264     |
| 14        | Maharashtra              | 15,17,922                                                   | 0                                                           | 15,17,922                                          |                                                 |                                                    | 15,17,922     |
| 15        | Manipur                  | 1,02,748                                                    | 5,367                                                       | 1,08,115                                           | 21135                                           | 0                                                  | 1,08,115      |
| 16        | Meghalaya                | 1,99,839                                                    | 0                                                           | 1,99,839                                           | 420                                             | 401                                                | 2,00,240      |
| 17        | Mizoram                  | 27,970                                                      | 0                                                           | 27,970                                             |                                                 |                                                    | 27,970        |
| 18        | Nagaland                 | 1,32,507                                                    | 0                                                           | 1,32,507                                           | 7009                                            | 7009                                               | 1,39,516      |
| 19        | Odisha                   | 24,52,444                                                   | 0                                                           | 24,52,444                                          |                                                 |                                                    | 24,52,444     |
| 20        | Puducherry*              | 912                                                         | 0                                                           | 912                                                |                                                 |                                                    | 912           |
| 21        | Punjab                   | 3,477                                                       | 0                                                           | 3,477                                              |                                                 |                                                    | 3,477         |
| 22        | Rajasthan (Jaipur)       | 18,62,736                                                   | 2,12,786                                                    | 20,75,522                                          | 210843                                          | 52206                                              | 21,27,728     |
| 23        | Sikkim                   | 14,900                                                      | 0                                                           | 14,900                                             |                                                 |                                                    | 14,900        |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu*              | 2,170                                                       | 0                                                           | 2,170                                              |                                                 |                                                    | 2,170         |
| 25        | Telangana                | 5,15,084                                                    | 0                                                           | 5,15,084                                           |                                                 |                                                    | 5,15,084      |
| 26        | Tripura                  | 1,39,090                                                    | 0                                                           | 1,39,090                                           |                                                 |                                                    | 1,39,090      |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh            | 79,80,568                                                   | 12,00,003                                                   | 91,80,571                                          | 334652                                          | 0                                                  | 91,80,571     |
| 28        | Uttarakhand              | 2,48,751                                                    | 0                                                           | 2,48,751                                           |                                                 |                                                    | 2,48,751      |
| 29        | West Bengal              | 7,32,290                                                    | 0                                                           | 7,32,290                                           |                                                 |                                                    | 7,32,290      |
|           | Total                    | 2,62,84,350                                                 | 18,85,374                                                   | 2,81,69,724                                        | 11,83,870                                       | 4,43,700                                           | 2,86,13,424   |

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