SAUBHAGYA Scheme has completed four years of successful implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n The SAUBHAGYA Scheme was announced by the Prime Minister in 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Objective: <\/b>To achieve Universal Household Electrification<\/strong> in the country through last-mile connectivity and providing access to electricity to all un-electrified households in rural areas and poor households in urban areas.<\/span><\/p>\n Nodal Agency:<\/b> REC Limited (Rural Electrification Corporation<\/strong>) has been designated as the nodal agency for the Saubhagya scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n All DISCOMs including <\/b>Private Sector DISCOMs, State Power Departments and RE Cooperative Societies shall be eligible for financial assistance under the scheme in line with <\/span>Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana<\/strong> (DDUGJY).<\/span><\/p>\n The prospective beneficiary households<\/b> for free electricity connections under the scheme would be identified using SECC 2011 data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, un-electrified households not covered under SECC data <\/b>would also be provided electricity connections under the scheme on payment of Rs. 500 which shall be recovered by DISCOMs in 10 instalments through electricity bill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The electricity connection to households <\/b>includes the release of electricity connections by drawing a service cable from the nearest pole to the household premise, installation of an energy meter, wiring for a single light point with an LED bulb and a mobile charging point.<\/span><\/p>\n As of March 31st, 2021 India has provided electricity access to 2.82 crore households as part of the Saubhagya scheme. Saubhagya Scheme will continue its work of providing a 24×7 quality power supply to all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All states<\/strong> have been requested to launch special campaigns<\/strong> in their respective states to identify any left out un-electrified households and subsequently provide electricity connections to them. A dedicated toll-free helpline<\/strong> has also been launched for that purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>SAUBHAGYA completes Four years of successful implementation<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on 25th Sep 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? SAUBHAGYA Scheme has completed four years of successful implementation. What is the Saubhagya Scheme? The SAUBHAGYA Scheme was announced by the Prime Minister in 2017.\u00a0 Objective: To achieve Universal Household Electrification in the country through last-mile connectivity and providing access to electricity to all un-electrified households in rural areas and poor… Continue reading SAUBHAGYA completes Four years of successful implementation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9,959],"tags":[4449,4450,364,7291,8667],"class_list":["post-137309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","category-schemes","tag-discoms","tag-power-sector","tag-rural-electrification","tag-saubhagya-scheme","tag-welfare-schemes-for-vulnerable-sections","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700572426},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Saubhagya Scheme?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key features of the Scheme?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the present status of the Scheme?<\/b><\/h5>\n