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The Power Minister, Shri P.M. Sayeed has said that the unique feature of the recently launched Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidhyuthikaran Yojana will be the setting up of District and village level committees and franchisees to ensure sustainability of the rural electrification programme. The Minister was speaking after the signing of agreements between the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and the Haryana Government on strengthening the rural electricity backbone. He said that the rural electrification scheme is the most important scheme of the government and aims at providing electricity to all village households in the next five years.
The Minister said that the rural electrification scheme had been named after Rajiv Gandhi since it was he who had started the Kutir Jyothi Yojana in 1988.
Speaking on the occasion the Chief Minister of Haryana, Shri Hooda appealed to Shri Sayeed to expand the existing NTPC Faridabad plant to meet the increasing energy needs of the State. The Power Minister promised to consider his demand if additional gas linkages are provided.
Today’s agreement is part of the process of signing tripartite agreements with state power utilities, the State governments and REC to enable them to take up implementation of projects under this programme.
Similar agreements have already been signed between REC and the States of West Bengal, Uttaranchal, Chhatisgarh and Rajasthan. So far 118 project reports for projects worth Rs. 4546 crore have already been sanctioned. Another 30 DPRs of the projects worth Rs. 1206 crore are under examination by REC.
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