MoP announces award scheme under Saubhagya

The Ministry of Power (MoP) has announced a Rs 1 billion award for states that complete household electrification early under the Saubhagya scheme. Apart from the discoms, their employees too would collectively get an award of Rs 5 million for completing the task of electrifying households. There are three categories of states that would compete under the scheme – special category states (Northeast and other hilly states), one pool of states where the number of households to be electrified is less than 0.5 million and another pool that would cover states that have more than 0.5 million households to be electrified.