Power issues of states to be taken up: Goyal

June 7:

NEW DELHI, 7 JUNE: The power issues of states would be taken up on a fast track basis, power and coal minister Piyush Goyal has said. Mr Goyal, who met Gujarat energy minister Saurabh Patel, tweeted: “My 3 (power, coal and renewable energy) ministries learned a lot about the power issues faced by the states and will address all such policy issues on a fast-track basis.”

Taking a leaf out of Gujarat Jyotigram Yojana, which aims at providing 24x7 electricity to all villages in the state, Mr Goyal said his ministry's dream is to provide power to every household in India. “We also understood the Jyotigram Yojana in great detail and will leave no stone unturned for our dream of 24x7 power, pan India in every home,” he said.

The newly appointed minister visited the western state yesterday along with his team to understand the underlying principles of Gujarat's success story. Mr Goyal, who took charge of three ministries on 28 May, had said he would visit Gujarat and study the best practices of the state's model in order to turn the energy sector around. He had said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he was the chief minister of Gujarat, was able to turn around the energy sector in the state from all perspectives ~ consumers, producers as well as in terms of transparency.

Under the Gujarat scheme, feeders (a power line for transmitting electrical power from a generating station to a distribution network) have specially designed transformers to supply power to farmers residing in scattered farm houses. Total expenditure on the Jyotigram Yojana scheme is Rs 1,290 crore.

Source: http://www.thestatesman.net/news/58521-power-issues-of-states-to-be-taken-up-goyal.html?