RK SINGH TO LAUNCH SAUBHAGYA SCHEME ON MARCH 9 IN U’KHAND
The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and renewable Energy R K Singh would launch Saubhagya scheme, meant to provide power connection to all the poor households in Uttarakhand, at Pavilion Ground in Dehradun on March 9.
It is learnt that close to 3, 52,000 houses in the State are still without power connection. A target has been fixed to provide power connection to all of them by December 2018.
The main programme of the launching of the Saubhagya would be held in Dehradun to be presided over by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. Among the officials, the secretary (power) Abhay Kumar Bhalla and joint secretary (distribution) A K Verma would be present during the launch. The ministers in-charge of the districts would distribute certificates to the intended beneficiaries.
As the State Government is preparing for the event the secretary in-charge (Energy) Radhika Jha chaired a meeting involving the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited officials and others at her office in the Secretariat on Tuesday.
During the meeting, Jha has directed the district officers to launch broad level publicity over the upcoming programme in all the districts of the state. UPCL managing director BCK Mishra said that to make this programme successful, committee have been formed at various levels and works are now going on in full swing.
According to a department official, free power connections would be provided to the BPL families under the scheme.
Notably, ‘Saubhagya is an ambitious scheme envisaged by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as part of which around four crore households across the country which have remained deprived of power connection would be provided with such connection by March 2019.
Source: dailypioneer
