By Ataullah Faizan
Bhopal, June 8, 2011
Madhya Pradesh is treading fast on the course of total electrification of villages under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Mission, reports SMS News and Features.
The Government of India had given a new definition of an electrified village in year 2004-05. As per this, a village is considered electrified where basic infrastructure like distribution transformer and electricity lines are available in the inhabited area and the localities and majara/tolas of the people scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Moreover, electricity facility should be available at schools, panchayat bhawans, health centres, dispensaries and community centres. Besides, minimum 10 percent population of the village is being supplied electricity.
As many as 329 villages have been electrified during the 10th Five Year Plan and in last three years of the 11th Five Years Plan in Madhya Pradesh. During the period, 11 thousand 415 electrified villages have been intensively electrified and electricity lines have been laid up to all the majras and tolas there. Similarly, electricity has been provided to 3 lakh 95 thousand 93 BPL families during the period in the state.
It may be mentioned here that the work of electrification on non-electrified villages and intensive electrification of electrified villages is in progress under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme. As many as 91 villages were electrified under 10th Five Years Plan in eight districts including Ashok Nagar, Guna, Chhindwara, Damoh, Jabalpur, Seoni, Indore and Ujjain districts. Besides, under this period electricity facility was provided to 2 lakh 35 thousand 940 BPL families.
Under the 11th Five Years Plan, so far, 238 non-electrified villages of 24 districts were electrified. These districts are Betul, Harda, Datia, Morena, Sheopur, Shivpuri, Dhar, Jhabua, Ratlam, Anuppur, Balaghat, Chhatarpur, Dindori, Katni, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Panna, Rewa, Sagar, Satna, Shahdol, Sidhi, Tikamgarh and Umaria. As many as one lakh 59 thousand 153 BPL families were also provided electricity.
A Rs. 964 crore scheme for electrification of 14 thousand 503 villages of 16 districts has been forwarded to Government of India under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme. After sanction of this scheme and availability of funds there under as many as 14 thousand 503 villages of Bhind, Bhopal, Gwalior, Hoshangabad, Raisen, Rajgarh, Sehore, Vidisha, Barwani, Burhanpur, Dewas, Khandwa, Khargone, Mandsaur, Neemuch and Shajapur districts would be electrified and about 4 lakh 32 thousand 348 BPL families would get electricity facility.
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