KISAN SURYODAYA YOJANA

Oct. 25, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Kisan Suryodaya Yojana in Gujarat for providing 16 hours of power supply to farmers.

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To provide day-time power supply for irrigation, the Gujarat Government had recently announced the ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’.
Under this scheme, farmers will be able to avail power supply from 5 AM to 9 PM.
The state government has allocated a budget of Rs.3500 crore for installing transmission infrastructure under this scheme by 2023.
234 ‘66-Kilowatt’ transmission lines, with a total length of 3490 circuit kilometers (CKM) will be established under the project, in addition to 220 KV substations.
Dahod, Patan, Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Kheda, Tapi, Valsad, Anand and Gir-Somnath have been included under the Scheme for 2020-21. The remaining districts will be covered in a phase-wise manner by 2022-23.

Source : The Hindu