Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said that within 15 months Udhampur will become the first district in Jammu and Kashmir to achieve hundred per cent rural electrification.
"Udhampur has achieved the distinction of being the first district in the state of Jammu and Kashmir to hold a formal meeting of District Electricity Committee for carrying forward the Government of India's Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) programme", Singh said during a meeting in Udhampur yesterday.
The Minister of State in the PMO said that Udhampur will also possibly be the first district in Jammu and Kashmir to achieve 100 per cent rural electrification within 15 months.
Earlier, Singh recalled, Udhampur was also the first district in the state to have officially launched Digital India programme and introduced e-Governance in administration within three days of its all-India launch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at New Delhi on July 1.
He said that district Udhampur consists of 253 villages in total comprising 1772 hamlets, out of which 260 hamlets were still either not electrified or partly electrified.
This task will therefore be accomplished under DDUGJY for which an amount of Rs 39.95 crore has been allocated by the Central Government and more amount will also be sought to be obtained for the purpose, he said.
