SAUBHAGYA (DDUGJY Addl Infra)

• Saubhagya Yojana (Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana) focuses on last mile connectivity and electricity connections to all the unelectrified households in the country.
• Saubhagya scheme is one of the world’s biggest Universal electrification initiatives with collaborative and concerted efforts of Centre and States.
• It is a concurrent program to DDUGJY (Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana).
• One of the salient features of Saubhagya Yojana is to Use Mobile App for identification of beneficiaries and electronic registration including requisite documentation and Web based near real-time monitoring and updating of progress.

Integrated Power Development Scheme

Ministry of Power, Government of India notified IPDS (Integrated Power Development Scheme) with following components:

• Strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution networks in the urban areas.
• Metering of distribution transformers / feeders / consumers in the urban areas.
• IT enablement of distribution sector and strengthening of distribution network.
• Schemes for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and IT enablement of balance urban towns.
• Underground cabling to include additional demand of States and smart metering solution

National Electricity Fund Scheme

Government of India has approved the NEF (Interest Subsidy) Scheme with the following objectives:

• To promote capital investment in the distribution sector by providing interest subsidy, linked with reform measures, on the loans taken by public and private power utilities for various capital works under Distribution projects.
• This scheme is applicable in the entire country and all the works except the works covered under R-APDRP projects (to ensure non-duplication and non-overlapping of grant/subsidy towards investment).
• NEF Scheme has the provision to provide interest subsidy and other charges for a period of 14 years on loans availed by distribution utilities in both public and private sector.