RENEWABLE ENERGY VISION 2012
RAJYA SABHA
The Ministry of Non-conventional
Energy Sources has taken up some important programmes for implementation
during the coming decade. One such programme, initiated during
2001-02, is the electrification of the estimated 18,000 villages
in the remote and difficult areas of the country through renewable
energy sources such as solar energy, biomass and small hydro power.
A target for electrifying 5,000 such villages has been fixed for
the Tenth Plan period.
The Government has
advised the states to identify remote villages for electrification
through non-conventional energy sources. Several states have submitted
partial or complete lists of such villages to the Ministry. The
number of remote villages identified so far in the states of Chattisgarh
and Madhya Pradesh for electrification through renewable energy
resources are 1250 and 1226 respectively. The state of Maharashtra
has submitted a list of 307 unelectrified villages.
120 remote villages
in Chattisgarh have so far been electrified under the programme
of the Ministry. Projects for electrification of a further 200
villages in Chattisgarh and 55 villages in Madhya Pradesh are
under implementation. No project for electrification of remote
villages through renewable energy sources has been sanctioned
so far in Maharashtra. It is proposed to electrify 1,000 villages
during 2003-2004 in the country under this programme.
This information
was given by Shri M. Kannappan, Minister of State for Non-conventional
Energy Sources, in a written reply to a question by Shri P.K.Maheshwari
in Rajya Sabha today.
