BHUBANESWAR, March 25 -- In view of the COVID-19 spread, which is creating severe bottlenecks to implement power projects, the State Government has approached the Union Government to allow it more time to complete additional infrastructure under the Centre's Deendayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY).
Chief Secretary Asit Tripthy has brought this to the notice of Union Power Secretary Sanjiv Nandan Sahai. Earlier, the Government of India in Ministry of Power had extended the timelines for undertaking additional infrastructure for household electrification under DDUGJY projects up to 31 March.
Tripathy pointed out that the progress of the projects under both the schemes being implemented by two Central PSUs and OPTCL respectively, are u...