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Installation of rooftop star powerfulness plants is being expedited successful Rajasthan nether the revamped organisation assemblage strategy (RDSS) to trim transmission and organisation losses and amended powerfulness proviso quality. Fixing meters connected transformers has besides been taken up rigorously nether the RDSS.
The Centre’s nodal bureau for RDSS — the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) — reviewed the advancement of enactment present implicit the weekend. REC Chairperson Jitendra Srivastava said the fig of teams successful the tract should beryllium accrued to accelerate the metering process and enactment taken against the infrastructure work providers implicit their nonaccomplishment to conscionable targets.
State discoms’ Chairperson Arti Dogra and the field-level officials of the 3 discoms successful the State attended the reappraisal meeting. Various aspects of task management, declaration execution, monitoring mechanics of discoms, adherence to strategy guidelines, timely betterment of energy dues, and timely receipt of subsidy dues were discussed.
Mr. Srivastava said the aggregate method and commercialized losses had decreased from 17.49% successful 2021-22 — anterior to the authorisation of RDSS works — to 14.26% successful 2024-25. Under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana, applications person been received from 2.36 lakh consumers and star modules installed for 1.15 lakh.
The Centre has already released grants for 1.04 lakh consumers successful Rajasthan. Mr. Srivastava asked the tract officials of the discoms to make consciousness connected the RDSS among agrarian consumers and promote citizens to avail of the scheme’s benefits.
The RDSS is aimed astatine modernising powerfulness organisation and making it much businesslike and financially stable, with absorption connected astute metering, infrastructure upgrades and reforms, portion backing is linked to show targets.
Ms. Dogra said the strategy of 150 units of escaped energy per period was expected to go fashionable among powerfulness consumers aft the organisation of State subsidies worthy ₹17,000 by the 3 discoms successful Jaipur, Jodhpur and Ajmer.
