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Better quality power for over 10,000 villages

JAIPUR: The public sector Jodhpur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam in Rajasthan has started supplying electricity of high quality to about 10,500 villages in 10 districts within its jurisdiction after completion of its feeder renovation programme.

The power supplied to villages is the same in terms of high quality as that supplied to the urban areas.

Jodhpur discom Managing Director B. D. Malu said in a statement that Rs.493 crore had been spent on the ambitious programme, leading to a huge reduction in transmission and distribution losses from 42 per cent to 27 per cent during the past three years.

Mr. Malu said the 500 remaining villages in the region would start getting the electricity of high quality by this month-end.

The discom is trying to further reduce the T&D losses to 20 per cent during the current financial year, which would make it a profit-earning institution.

The Jodhpur discom has released 63,570 new electricity connections under the Kuteer Jyoti Yojana against the target of 60,000 connections. Besides, work has been initiated for electrification of 2,000 hamlets in the desert districts of western Rajasthan.

The feeder renovation programme undertaken by the three discoms in Jodhpur, Jaipur and Ajmer has facilitated the supply of high quality electricity to about 31,000 villages across the State.

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