DDUGJY : Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

Organization : Ministry of Power
Scheme Name : Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

Website : http://www.ddugjy.in/
Guidelines : https://www.statusin.in/uploads/20523-Guidelines.pdf

Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana :

1. Background:
1.1 In rural areas of the country, the agricultural and non-agricultural load (domestic and non-domestic) are typically catered through common distribution network.

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The availability of power supply in rural areas is inadequate and unreliable in many parts of the country. The distribution utilities resort to frequent load shedding in rural areas to mitigate the gap between supply and demand, which affects power supply to agricultural consumers as well as non-agricultural consumers owing to common distribution network.

1.2 Feeder separation refers to supply of electricity to agricultural consumers and to non-agricultural consumers (domestic and non-domestic) separately through dedicated feeders. This arrangement allows the distribution company to regulate power supply to agricultural consumers as and when needed for effective Demand Side Management (DSM).

The separation of feeders helps in flattening of the load curve by shifting the agricultural load to off-peak hours and thus facilitates peak load management. The core objective of separation of feeders is to provide regulated supply to agricultural consumers and continuous power supply to non-agricultural consumers in rural areas.

1.3 The demand of electricity in rural areas is increasing day by day due to increase in customer base, changes in lifestyle and consumption pattern which requires continual strengthening and augmentation of distribution network.

1.4 In order to facilitate sustainable commercial operations of electricity distribution, it is also important to focus on metering at consumer end for all categories of consumers. Apart from metering at consumer end, the metering arrangement at distribution transformers and feeders would facilitate building up a mechanism for proper energy accounting. This will help in identifying high loss pockets and initiating remedial measures towards reduction of losses.

2. Approval of the scheme:
2.1 Govt. of India has launched Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) for the rural areas with the following components:
(i) Separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders facilitating judicious rostering of supply to agricultural & non- agricultural consumers in the rural areas;
(ii) Strengthening and augmentation of sub-transmission & distribution (ST&D) infrastructure in rural areas, including metering at distribution transformers, feeders and consumers end;
(iii) Rural electrification, as per CCEA approval dated 01.08.2013 for completion of the targets laid down under RGGVY for 12th and 13th Plans by subsuming RGGVY in DDUGJY and carrying forward the approved outlay for RGGVY to DDUGJY;

2.2 The approval has been accorded for components (i) and (ii) above having scheme cost of Rs. 43033 crore including a budgetary support of Rs. 33453 crore from Government of India during the entire implementation period (balance period of 12th & 13th Plan).

2.3 The existing programme of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) as approved by CCEA for continuation in 12th and 13th Plans will get subsumed in this scheme as a separate rural electrification component [component (iii) above] for which CCEA has already approved the scheme cost of Rs. 39275 crore including a budgetary support of Rs. 35447 crore. This outlay will be carried forward to the new scheme of DDUGJY in addition to the outlay indicated in Para 2.2 above.

2.4 Office Memorandum F.No. 44/44/2014-RE dated 3rd December 2014 issued by the Ministry of Power in respect of Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) is enclosed as Annexure-I.

3. These guidelines shall be applicable for the components (i) & (ii) above of the scheme viz. feeder separation and augmentation of distribution infrastructure including metering in rural areas and any new project sanctioned under Rural Electrification component. The existing operational Guidelines/ Standard documents/ procedures of RGGVY shall continue to prevail for implementation of already sanctioned RE projects.