{"id":24613,"date":"2024-06-30T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24613"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:17:54","slug":"what-is-saubhagya-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-saubhagya-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Saubhagya Scheme?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Saubhagya Scheme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government of India launched <strong>Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana<\/strong> (SAUBHAGYA) in October, 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: Achieving <strong>universal household electrification<\/strong>, by providing <strong>electricity connections to<\/strong> all un<strong>-electrified households in rural areas<\/strong> and all <strong>poor households in urban areas i<\/strong>n the country.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Saubhagaya scheme, <strong>LED bulbs, wire, holders, switches,<\/strong> etc are to be provided to BPL families <strong>free of cost.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Salient features<\/strong> of the scheme were:\n<ul>\n<li>Providing <strong>last-mile connectivity and electricity connections to all un-electrified households in rural areas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Providing <strong>Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV)<\/strong>-based standalone <strong>systems for un-electrified household<\/strong>s located <strong>in remote and inaccessible villages<\/strong> \/ habitations <strong>where grid extension is not feasible <\/strong>or cost effective.<\/li>\n<li>Providing <strong>last mile connectivity and electricity connections to all <\/strong>remaining economically poor un-electrified households in urban areas. <strong>Non-poor urban households are excluded<\/strong> from this scheme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>In the rural areas<\/strong>, <strong>families other than BPL<\/strong> families <strong>electricity connection<\/strong> has to be provided <strong>for Rs. 500<\/strong>. The consumer has to pay the amount in 10 equal installments of Rs. 50 in each bill, in the urban areas, the <strong>BPL families<\/strong> will be provided <strong>free power connection<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a provision that <strong>families of rural areas<\/strong>, <strong>which <\/strong>are not possible to issue electrical <strong>assembliesthrough grid supply<\/strong>, have to be <strong>published through solar energ<\/strong>y.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rural Electrification Corporation (REC)<\/strong> has been designated as its <strong>nodal agency<\/strong> for the Saubhagya scheme.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>beneficiaries<\/strong> for free electricity connections will be <strong>identified using Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC)<\/strong> 2011 data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Rural Electrification Corporation (REC)?<\/h3>\n<p>Rural Electrification Corp is a state owned company under the Ministry of Power. Its purpose is to finance the development of power generation and distribution across India. In particular, it focuses on rural communities in India, where millions of people live without reliable electricity supplies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/suabhagya-scheme-ex-meghalaya-energy-officials-issued-notice-over-irregularities-101719647287465-amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Suabhagya scheme: Ex-Meghalaya energy officials issued notice over irregularities<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saubhagya Scheme aims to achieve universal household electrification, by providing electricity connections to all un-electrified households in rural areas and all poor households in urban areas in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}