Chandigarh,Feb 26, 2020 ( Yadavindra S Rana ) : In Haryana, under the ‘Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon’ scheme 4463
villages are getting 24 hours power supply of 1048 RDS feeders of 11
KV in 9 districts namely Ambala, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra,
Faridabad, Gurugram, Rewari, Sirsa, and Fatehabad. This includes 2637
villages of 528 feeders of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and 1826
villages of 520 feeders of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam.
Haryana Power Minister, Ranjit Singh shared this
information while replying to a question asked during the question
hour of the ongoing budget session in Haryana Vidhan Sabha, here
today.
He made the House aware that with the aim to provide
sustainable power supply to rural areas at par with the urban areas of
the State ‘Mhara Gaon Jagmag Gaon’ scheme was launched in July 2015.
Under this scheme, to improve the service quality,
activities such as replacing naked wires with AB cable, replacing
defective or electromechanical meters, shifting power meters outside
the houses, maintenance of distribution transformers and maintaining
the LD system are running by the State Government. Under this,
one-time replacement or re-installation of the meter will be done on
the spot and the meter will not be sent to M&T Lab for further
testing.