Lok Sabha Question No. 750 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-03
Subject: Power Subsidy to BPL Families
Ministry: NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
Asked by: KAMLA DEVI PATLE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION NO. 750

TO BE ANSWERED ON 03.12.2015

## POWER SUBSIDY TO BPL FAMILIES

## 750. SHRIMATI KAMLA DEVI PAATLE:

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

- (a) whether the Government has launched/proposes to launch any scheme with hundred per cent subsidy to provide single point electricity connection to the people living below poverty line in the country ;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise including Chhattisgarh; and
- (c) the number of BPL families benefited under this scheme during the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR POWER, COAL & NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

- (a)&(b): Yes Madam.

Erstwhile RGGVY was launched by Government of India in April, 2005 for creation of Rural  Electricity  Infrastructure  &  Household  Electrification,  envisaging  providing  access  to electricity to rural households and providing free electricity connections to all BPL households. Now erstwhile RGGVY has been subsumed in Deendayal Upadhyay Gram JyotiYojana as Rural Electrification component of DDUGJY. As informed by REC under the scheme, 921 projects have been sanctioned in the country covering release of free electricity connections to 3.96 crore BPL households including Chhattisgarh. Cumulatively, as on 31.10.2015, free electricity connections to 2.26 crore BPL households (57%) have been released.

- (c): The State wise details of BPL families benefited under the scheme during the last three years and current year, are presented at Annexure-I.

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Annexure I

## Annexure I referred to in reply to Part (c) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question  No. 750 to be answered on Thursday, 3.12.2015

State-wise    release  of  free  electricity  connections  to    BPL  households  under  DDUGJY (erstwhile RGGVY) during last three years and current year

16

2014-15

31.10.2015)

| Sr. No.   | State             | During 2012-13        | During 2013-14        | During 2014-15        | During 2015- 16 (as on 31.10.2015)   |
|-----------|-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Sr. No.   | State             | Ach.                  | Ach.                  | Ach.                  | Ach.                                 |
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    | 50570                 | 0                     | 0                     | 0                                    |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh | 7140                  | 18762                 | 4200                  | 0                                    |
| 3         | Assam             | 101260                | 204904                | 79004                 | 23408                                |
| 4         | Bihar             | 201081                | 106007                | 190571                | 448146                               |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      | 64504                 | 69538                 | 62172                 | 14783                                |
| 6         | Gujarat           | 26729                 | 11672                 | 1726                  | 0                                    |
| 7         | Haryana           | 19                    | 5432                  | 1                     | 0                                    |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh  | 5200                  | 927                   | 324                   | 0                                    |
| 9         | Jammu &Kashmir    | 9072                  | 14276                 | 5260                  | 420                                  |
| 10        | Jharkhand         | 26070                 | 11608                 | 12022                 | 6314                                 |
| 11        | Karnataka         | 24640                 | 16560                 | 19532                 | 2735                                 |
| 12        | Kerala            | 35755                 | 60229                 | 12329                 | 14242                                |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh    | 244422                | 180737                | 173281                | 75344                                |
| 14        | Maharashtra       | 21148                 | 32709                 | 6702                  | 59                                   |
| 15        | Manipur           | 37                    | 807                   | 40649                 | 0                                    |
| 16        | Meghalaya         | 22727                 | 18262                 | 1063                  | 237                                  |
| 17        | Mizoram           | 401                   | 4096                  | 10023                 | 0                                    |
| 18        | Nagaland          | 9048                  | 8237                  | 8300                  | 507                                  |
| 19        | Orissa            | 78003                 | 38896                 | 22149                 | 5400                                 |
| 20        | Punjab            | 26479                 | 20000                 | 1206                  | 0                                    |
| 21        | Rajasthan         | 97324                 | 17163                 | 16755                 | 0                                    |
| 22        | Sikkim            | 417                   | 346                   | 1622                  | 1850                                 |
| 23        | Tamilnadu         | 0                     | 0                     | 0                     | 0                                    |
| 24        | Telangana         | Not in existence. 868 | Not in existence. 868 | Not in existence. 868 | 0                                    |
| 25        | Tripura           | 18516                 | 16383                 | 1272                  | 0                                    |
| 26        | Uttar Pradesh     | 3037                  | 14695                 | 86750                 | 186981                               |
| 27        | Uttarakhand       | 4035                  | 29000                 | 0                     | 0                                    |

| 28   | West Bengal   | 220661   | 62927   | 1596   | 1755   |
|------|---------------|----------|---------|--------|--------|