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DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAM JYOTI YOJANA (DDUGJY)

The Ministry of Power, Government of India (MoP), has launched the ‘Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY)’ with the following broad objectives:
  Creation of new infrastructure for providing access to power for all households
  Physical separation of HT feeders for 24x7 Power for agricultural and non-agricultural consumers.
  Strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution systems and metering at all levels for reduction of AT&C losses.


The scheme sanctioned by the Ministry of Power, Govt. of India for the State of West Bengal with the following major components.
  Electrification of 14 no Un-electrified (UE) and 59 no Partially Electrified (PE) villages in South 24 Parganas Districts under Sunderban Area including service connection to 31305 no BPL households.
  Separation of 621 no feeders (Drawal of New HT OH line: 17579 KM, New DTR: 17579 No) for segregation of Agricultural load from existing 11 KV feeders.
  Creation of Rural Electricity infrastructure (Drawal of new HT OH Line: 5170 Km, New DTR:10560 No, New LT OH line:5660 Km, New LT OH line with AB Cable:2320 Km, Conversion of existing LT OH line by AB Cable : 19737 KM, Capacity Augmentation of Existing DTR: 2160 No) for connecting un connected households.
Installation of 80 no new 33/11 KV Substations, Capacity Augmentation of 106 no existing 33/11 KV Substation, renovation/augmentation of 2447 Km of existing HT lines for strengthening of rural electricity backbone infrastructure.
Creation of rural electricity infrastructure (HT: line 10 KM) under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana(SAGY)
Installation of energy meters in 1.23 lakhs un-metered Distribution Transformers, 512 no Feeders and replacement of approx 13.66 lakhs defective/electromagnetic consumer meters for seamless accounting and auditing of energy at all levels in the distribution system.
Relocation /shifting of approx 3.97 lakhs existing consumer meters outside the premises of consumers including associated service cables.


The total financial outlay of the project is Rs.4262.10 Crore including Project Management Agency (PMA) Charges. The capital subsidy of the scheme will be received 60% from Govt. of India, 25% from Govt. of West Bengal and the rest 15% will be provided from the company’s own fund.

The LoA for electrification of the 14 no UE & 59 No PE villages including BPL households connections under South 24Parganas District has been placed & work started. The execution of 20 no new 33/11 KV Substation work (where land available) & Capacity Augmentation of the existing 33/11 KV Substation work, has been taken up departmentally. The expected date of completion of the above work is March 2017. The balance work under the project will be executed on Partial Turnkey basis. Tenders for the same will be floated by 1st week of June 2016.