Modi eletric shock to Nitish on 25th July

Janjivan Bureau
NEW DELHI: Bihar is in fullswing of assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to launch of Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in Patna on 25th July. DDUGJY is for whole of the country but programme to be launch from Bihar. Bihar Chief Minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav already declared that Vijay Rath of Modi will be stop in Bihar. But Modi is going to remember the Nitish promises regarding electricity.
In 2012, Kumar had said he would not seek votes in the Assembly polls if he failed to supply power to all villages in the state.
Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana to provide round the clock electricity to all households through separate feeders for agricultural and rural domestic consumption. As per the scheme, there will be separate feeder for agriculture and domestic users in rural areas. The scheme which was successfully implemented in Gujarat, will be implemented across the country.
The programme of strengthening and augmentation of sub transmission and distribution infrastructure in rural areas, including metering of distribution transformers,feeders and consumers.
The estimated cost of the scheme for above two components is Rs.43,033 crore which includes the requirement of budgetary support of Rs.33,453 crore from Government of India over the entire implementation period.
In Bihar, whopping 54 per cent electricity was either “stolen or lost” which “doesn’t produce a single unit from its own power stations.”All the power here is supplied by the Centre or other states. Whatever power plants are here are so old that they have become unworkable.” said Power Minister Piyush Goyal.
Altogether 54 per cent electricity supplied here is either stolen or lost,” Goyal said. “The honest public has to pay for the electricity theft and losses in the form of inflated bills handed over to them,” he said. Goyal said the state government recovered the whopping electricity losses from the honest, bill paying customers.
Bihar’s demand for electricity was assessed at 2,994 MW, low even in comparison to Delhi which was just a city, but had a demand for 5,800 to 6,000 MW. “The per capita electricity consumption in Bihar is just 160 units per year, which is very low even in comparison to the national average, which was 1,000 units per year. There are no industries here. There are places where electricity hasn’t reached and if it has reached it doesn’t stay,” he said.