Lok Sabha Question No. 3641 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-10
Subject: Solar Power Supply in Villages
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: Pashupati Nath Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3641

ANSWERED ON 10.08.2023

## SOLAR POWER SUPPLY IN VILLAGES

## 3641. SHRI PASHUPATI NATH SINGH

Will the Minister of NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY be pleased to state: (a) the details of projects set up to supply power in villages through solar energy; (b) the number of villages where power has been supplied so far through solar energy, State/UT-wise; and

- (c) the status of the said projects in Dhanbad Parliamentary Constituency of Jharkhand particularly in Dhanbad and Bokaro districts?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND POWER

## (SHRI R.K. SINGH)

(a) to (c) In December, 2014, Government of India launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) for various rural electrification works across the country. The Scheme has Decentralized Distributed Generation (DDG) component for providing electricity access to the un-electrified villages/habitations where grid connectivity is neither feasible or nor cost effective.  Under  DDUGJY, a total of 2762 villages were electrified through  off-grid mode including solar energy. State/UT-wise details are placed at Annexure.

In October, 2017, Government of India launched Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana - 'Saubhagya' with the aim to achieve universal household electrification by providing last mile  grid  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 systems to un-electrified households where grid extension is neither feasible nor cost effective.

Both DDUGJY and Saubhagya schemes stand closed. A total of around 4.70 lakh households were  reported  electrified  through  solar  based  standalone  systems  under  these  schemes.  In Dhanbad  Parliamentary  Constituency,  a  total  of  15  households  in  six  villages  have  been reported electrified in Bokaro district through solar energy under Saubhagya scheme.

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Annexure referred in reply to Part (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Unstarred question no. 3641 to be answered on 10.08.2023.

## Number of villages electrified through off-grid mode under DDUGY Scheme

| S. No.   | State/UT          | Number of villages   |
|----------|-------------------|----------------------|
| 1        | Arunachal Pradesh | 555                  |
| 2        | Assam             | 394                  |
| 3        | Bihar             | 207                  |
| 4        | Chhattisgarh      | 473                  |
| 5        | Jammu and Kashmir | 54                   |
| 6        | Jharkhand         | 248                  |
| 7        | Karnataka         | 27                   |
| 8        | Madhya Pradesh    | 33                   |
| 9        | Maharashtra       | 43                   |
| 10       | Manipur           | 99                   |
| 11       | Meghalaya         | 82                   |
| 12       | Odisha            | 399                  |
| 13       | Rajasthan         | 93                   |
| 14       | Uttar Pradesh     | 31                   |
| 15       | Uttarakhand       | 24                   |
| Total    | Total             | 2,762                |