The Hindu Business Line : Haryana signs MoU with REC

A TRIPARTITE agreement to implement the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidytikaran Yojana for providing electricity to all rural households in Haryana was signed between the State Government, Rural Electrification Corporation and the State's power utilities.

Speaking on the occasion, the Union Power Minister, Mr P.M. Sayeed, said the rural electrification programme aimed at setting up of district and village level committees and franchisees to ensure sustainability of the scheme.

Under the scheme, 7.8 crore households would be provided electricity in the next five years and the work would be completed through REC and the State Government, NGOs, user associations, cooperative and individual entrepreneurs and the panchayati raj institutions.

The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, asked the Centre to expedite the construction of National Thermal Power Corporation's 432 MW Faridabad plant to meet the growing energy needs of the State.

The State Government has submitted schemes amounting to Rs 426.64 crore for appraisal to the REC and another proposal of Rs 272.90 crore would soon be submitted. The Centre should provide Haryana more power from its unallocated quota and from the eastern States during peak seasons of kharif and rabi sowing, Mr Hooda said.

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