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Manmohan to launch rural electrification scheme
By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI,
APRIL 2.
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, will launch here on Monday `Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana' (RGGVY), a new rural electrification scheme, aimed at providing electricity to all households in villages.
Under the scheme, a rural electricity distribution backbone with at least one 33/11 KV or 66/11 KV sub-station is to be created in each block to build infrastructure by installing at least one distribution transformer in each village or habitation.
Decentralised distribution generation is to be undertaken where grid supply is neither feasible nor cost-effective. The ultimate aim is to bridge the urban-rural divide and accelerate rural development by generating employment and eliminating poverty, says an official release.
In its National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP), the United Progressive Alliance has promised rural household electrification in the next five years. It has decided to pay special attention to augmenting and modernising rural infrastructure and electrification.
Under the new programme, 90 per cent of the capital cost is to be extended as grant by the Centre in keeping with the NCMP goals, one of them being free electricity connection to all rural household living below the poverty line.
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