CAG highlights glaring lapses in rural electrification scheme rollout

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report on the implementation of Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) across five electricity supply companies (escoms) in Karnataka has revealed several discrepancies in allotment of contracts and deficiencies in the management of the funds under the scheme.

Though 39 unelectrified villages, 13,949 partially electrified villages, and 5,70,922 BPL households were electrified in the state under the said schemes, the report pointed out that the failure to monitor the projects by the state government and respective escoms had resulted in cost and time overrun.