2.86 crore households were electrified under SAUBHAGYA Scheme including additional households that were unwilling for electrification earlier but became willing later: Union[...]

Ministry of Power

2.86 crore households were electrified under SAUBHAGYA Scheme including additional households that were unwilling for electrification earlier but became willing later: Union Power & NRE Minister Shri R.K. Singh

Posted On: 14 MAR 2023 4:11PM by PIB Delhi

The 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 un-electrified households in rural areas and all poor households in urban areas in the country. Under the aegis of SAUBHAGYA, as on 31.03.2019, all households were reported electrified by the States, except 18,734 households in Left Wing Extremists (LWE) affected areas of Chhattisgarh. Subsequently, seven States namely Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Manipur, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh had reported that around 19.09 lakh un-electrified households, identified before 31.03.2019, which were unwilling earlier but later expressed willingness to get electricity connection. This was also sanctioned. All these seven States had reported 100% households' electrification as on 31.03.2021. A total of 2.817 crore households were electrified since the launch of SAUBHAGYA, up to 31.03.2021. Thereafter, some States reported 11.84 lakh households remained to be electrified, against which States reported that

4.43 lakh households have been electrified. A total of 2.86 crore households were electrified under the aegis of SAUBHAGYA including additional households in two tranches that were unwilling for electrification earlier but became willing later. The scheme stands closed as on 31.03.2022.

While fresh arising of new households is a continuous process and electrification of such households is expected to be taken care of by the Distribution Utilities, the Government of India stands committed to help the States to electrify all the households which existed when SAUBHAGYA was sanctioned. In this respect, the Government of India recently issued guidelines for their electrification under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS) and the States have been advised to pose their DPRs to the Ministry of Power in this regard.

1. : SAUBHAGYA was for all the states and Union territories and a total of 29 states had participated during its implementation period. Few other State/UTs i.e. Goa, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Kerala, Lakshadweep had reported that most of the houses were already electrified before launch of SAUBHAGYA Scheme and accordingly had not participated in SAUBHAGYA.

District-wise status of Household electrification in the State of Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka under SAUBHAGYA is at ANNEXURE.

ANNEXURE

District-wise status of household electrification under SAUBHAGYA in MadhyaPradesh

Sl. No	District	Total No. of households electrified
1	Ashoknagar	16430
2	Betul	32851
3	Bhind	66285
4	Bhopal	16550
5	Datia	30797
6	Guna	55595
7	Gwalior	13655
8	Harda	8179
9	Hoshangabad	11254
10	Morena	66123
11	Sheopur	31087
12	Raisen	47177
13	Rajgarh	62478
14	Sehore	17868
15	Shivpuri	67908
16	Vidisha	48724
17	Anuppur	45984
18	Balaghat	44967
19	Chhatarpur	45307
20	Chhindwara	42003
21	Damoh	29353
22	Dindori	32011
23	Jabalpur	13157
24	Katni	20333
25	Mandla	36402
26	Narsimhapur	18984
27	Panna	34353
28	Rewa	54142
29	Sagar	52076
30	Satna	38939
31	Seoni	36315
32	Shahdol	45052
33	Sidhi	61687
34	Singrauli	46220
35	Tikamgarh	30380
36	Umaria	14885
37	Alirajpur	32448
38	Barwani	26066
39	Burhanpur	8240
40	Dewas	16947
41	Dhar	46116
42	EastNimar	23223
43	Indore	10161
44	Jhabua	48645
45	Mandsaur	3722
46	Neemuch	3514
47	Ratlam	27225
48	Shajapur	10942
49	Ujjain	23300
50	WestNimar	20855
	StateTotal	1636915