Saturday, 2 March 2013

Remote Village Electrification for 6033 villages sanctioned.



Remote Village Electrification (RVE) for 6033 villages and hamlets have been sanctioned during the 11th Plan and work on 5211 nos. of villages and hamlets has been completed in various States including Tamil Nadu and Odisha.
Two proposals of 61 hamlets and 161 hamlets of Uttar Pradesh, one proposal of 14 villages of Rajasthan, one proposal of 24 villages and 274 hamlets of Jammu & Kashmir and one proposal of 14 villages of Madhya Pradesh have been received and are currently under first round of appraisal. The Remote Village Electrification (RVE) programme and projects are sanctioned on case-to-case basis after proposals are submitted by the state notified implementing agencies as per the guidelines of the scheme.

The monitoring of implementation of RVE projects is carried out by  the respective state notified implementing agencies. Third party monitoring by an agency appointed by the concerned state notified implementing agency is mandatory for final closure of the project. It is also the responsibility of the implementing agencies to ensure functionality of the systems after installation.

The RVE programme is  currently sanctioned for continuation  up to 31st March 2013. However, the Ministry is in the process of developing a new scheme “Rural Area Energy Access Programme I” by modifying the existing RVE scheme.

The state-wise details of villages and hamlets sanctioned based on the complete proposals as per the guidelines of the scheme submitted by different states and approved by the Ministry during the Eleventh Five year plan are given in the  Table below.




           
Sl. No.
State
No. of villages and hamlets sanctioned during the 11th Plan
No. of villages and hamlets completed during the 11th Plan
Funds released
(Rs. In Lakh)**





1.
Andhra Pradesh
13
13
31.47
2.
Arunachal Pradesh
0
141
476.09
3.
Assam
1691
1817
11089.97
5.
Chhattisgarh
314
243
1621.34
6.
Delhi*
0
0
24.96
7.
Goa
19
0
9.74
8.
Gujarat
0
36
0
9.
Haryana
92
241
68.55
10.
Himachal Pradesh
0
20
0
11.
Jammu & Kashmir
320
43
5954.69
12.
Jharkhand
251
206
4424.99
13.
Karnataka
59
30
125.98
14.
Kerala
49
49
339.04
15.
Madhya Pradesh
424
351
3150.7
16.
Maharashtra
82
228
2220.207
17.
Manipur
49
106
520.59
18.
Meghalaya
66
124
229.73
20.
Nagaland
8
11
83.477
21.
Orissa
1528
584
5244.19
23.
Rajasthan
103
163
2152.74
24.
Sikkim
0
0
8.04
25.
Tamil Nadu
32
0
66.76
26.
Tripura
479
539
2740.41
27.
Uttarakhand
173
76
640.525
28.
Uttar Pradesh
257
184
1969.19
29.
West Bengal
24
6
2785.24
30.
Other (TERI)*
0
0
38.86
Total      
6033
5211
46017.479















This information was given by Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New & Renewable Energy in LokSabha on March 1, 2013.

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