Sagar Khedu Sarvangi Vikas Yojana
The scheme aims to improve power infrastructure in coastal taluks by addressing corrosion issues, ensuring adequate voltage, and continuous electricity supply. Benefits include reduction in motor burnout, prevention of industrial losses, and providing new agricultural electricity connections.
- Ministry / Department
- Energy and Petro Chemicals Department
- Level
- State
- Benefit type
- cash
What is Sagar Khedu Sarvangi Vikas Yojana?
The scheme aims to improve power infrastructure in coastal taluks by addressing corrosion issues, ensuring adequate voltage, and continuous electricity supply. Benefits include reduction in motor burnout, prevention of industrial losses, and providing new agricultural electricity connections.
- Benefit
- The scheme plans for several infrastructure improvements and resultant benefits for consumers in coastal areas: **Infrastructure Improvement:** Work is planned for the improvement of distribution lines, construction of new 66 Kilovolt sub stations, and repair and modernization of transmission lines. **Voltage and Supply:** Industrial and residential customers located in the coastal areas will receive adequate voltage and continuous power supply. **Reduced Failures:** There will be a significant reduction in the rate of electric motor burnout and transformer failure. **Reduced Losses:** There will be a reduction in transmission loss and power interruption. **Crop Protection:** Provision of continuous power supply will prevent damage to crops. **Safety:** Accidents that occur due to the breaking of power lines can be largely avoided. **Development:** The all-round development of the villages of the taluks located in the Sagar Kantha area can be achieved. **New Connections:** New agricultural electricity connections are planned to be provided to coastal farmers (with a target of 12,000 connections mentioned for the financial year 2016-2017). **Residential Coverage:** Electricity supply is planned for approximately 1,00,000 housings.
- Level
- State — Gujarat
- Ministry / Dept.
- Energy and Petro Chemicals Department
- Benefit type
- cash
- Key eligibility
- ***The guidelines of the scheme do not define any specific eligibility criteria. However, the target groups benefiting from the infrastructure and connection provisions will be the following:*** - Electricity consumers living in the coastal area. - Industrial, residential, or agricultural customers
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Benefits
The scheme plans for several infrastructure improvements and resultant benefits for consumers in coastal areas: **Infrastructure Improvement:** Work is planned for the improvement of distribution lines, construction of new 66 Kilovolt sub stations, and repair and modernization of transmission lines. **Voltage and Supply:** Industrial and residential customers located in the coastal areas will receive adequate voltage and continuous power supply. **Reduced Failures:** There will be a significant reduction in the rate of electric motor burnout and transformer failure. **Reduced Losses:** There will be a reduction in transmission loss and power interruption. **Crop Protection:** Provision of continuous power supply will prevent damage to crops. **Safety:** Accidents that occur due to the breaking of power lines can be largely avoided. **Development:** The all-round development of the villages of the taluks located in the Sagar Kantha area can be achieved. **New Connections:** New agricultural electricity connections are planned to be provided to coastal farmers (with a target of 12,000 connections mentioned for the financial year 2016-2017). **Residential Coverage:** Electricity supply is planned for approximately 1,00,000 housings.
Eligibility
Documents Required
How to Apply
Step 1: Offline application — step 1
No application is required from individual citizens to avail benefits under the scheme. The Government of Gujarat grants administrative approval for the expenditure required for the scheme. Funds are released to the Implementing Agency 'Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL)' as a share capital contribution for infrastructure development and construction activities in designated areas.
Step 2: Offline application — step 3
Conditions for GUVNL
Step 3: Offline application — step 4
Expenditure must be incurred within the budget provisions made for the financial year and within the limit of the amount allocated by the government. Unspent amounts must be surrendered at the end of the year. The expenditure must be made only for the purpose for which the budget provision was made; the amount cannot be used for any other purpose. Periodic certificates of expenditure utilization and monthly progress reports detailing expenditure must be submitted to the government. E-tendering provisions, as per resolutions by the Industries and Mines Department, must be strictly adhered to in tender processing under this scheme.
Sources & References
- Official scheme website ↗
- Source record ↗
- Information is summarised from official government sources. Verify all details on the official website before applying.
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