The constant source of energy that has lit up lives of Gujarat's every household..Jyortigrgram Yojna.Swarnimsiddhi-23.

The growth of qualitative standard of human lives is of primary importance, for the progress of any nation. For achieving this augmentation, it is utmost important to develop our rural areas. The economist in Mahatma Gandhi, too, had advocated this requirement as the ‘need of the hour’, to impede the migration of citizens from their native villages to urban areas, creating extra burden on cities and towns and villages turning more and more barren.
People settled in rural areas, voyage to nearby and sometime far off cities and towns, in need of opportunity to generate money. As the result, the families were breaking down in rural areas and those having been compelled to shift to urban areas were living a non-fulfilling emotional as well as non-hygenic physical lives. To eradicate such miseries suffered by people, the action in necessary direction was inevitable. The Hon. C.M. of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi, diagnosed the anguish that was experienced by people and decided to put into action, the plan of surgery.
Shri Modiji promulgated the plan to create a RURBAN ECONOMY. An economy that would be a progressive combination of rural as well as urban areas and which would promote every facility, of urbanization in villages.
The basic dictate, needed to impart this Golden situation would be availability of constant electric supply, which would encourage people to not migrate to urban areas but be provided with the similar facilities at their door step. The availability of three phase electric supply to farms as well as other small scale industries facilitated them to create more input and extract still more output.
The creation of Jyotirgram Yojna, in Gujarat has worked as a magic wand in the exemplary development achieved by the state. Apart from accomplishing economic development, maintaining the equilibrium between the social fabric of family lives has also been attained.
Jyotirgram Yojna, was initiated in 2003, on a trial base. and it was completed in March 2006. Now, it has been transformed in most parts of the state. About 18,065 rural areas and 9,681 suburbs were the recipient through this plan. The expense was estimated to be 12,000 crores and the entire sum was provided by the Gujarat Govt. About 56,599 km. of fresh pipe lines and 1,262 new transformers were created. The entire creation of this mega project occurred in the record time of 30 months.
The pipe lines for agricultural usage and non-agricultural usage have been split. This Yojna also controls the pilfering of electricity..
The supply was initially divided between two different sectors.
1.Agricultural
and
2.Commorcial, Industrial and household.
The agricultural users were provided with eight long hours of dedicated supply. The rest of the users were provided with constant supply in the other hours. When it was learnt that the group of people residing on the farm were left out in the two-tired divison of electricity, novel plan was adopted for house-hold and commercial supply.
The Scrape Transformers owne4d by Gujarat Electricity Board designed a fresh plan to designate supply for farm residents and 1470 new transformers were set up to furnish single phase electric supply to them.
As a result, the electricity sector earned 50,000 crores higher INR from April 2005 to March 2006. Due to Jyortigram Yojna, with the capacity of 112 megawatt of electricity, the number of consumers have increased from 70 lakhs in 2003 to 86 lakhs in 2006. The deficiet in supply and distribution of electricity has gone down by 4.88% in 2005-06 and 5.40% in 2008-07.
Aggregated employment has increased and the swing towards urban areas have decreased by 33%. Ex. A worker employed on Diamond sharpening machine were required to shift base to certain urban areas and live their in unhygienic conditions leaving behind their families in native place. With advent of constant supply of electricity in the entire state, has enabled the worker to set up a machine in his vicinity and work from home, allowing him to stay at home.
The working hours in the rural areas have gone up, considerably due to constant three phase supply and resulted in higher profits of these units.
The education time for girls and boys have shot up by 92% and 81% respectively.
26% of time of rural women is saved in house-hold work, providing more time for other activities.
53% families can contribute more to their incomes by working at night. Thus, people can do two to three jobs as the constant electricity enables them to work ceaselessly even late in the night.
The Jyortigram Yojna has been a boon in the development of Gujarat and it has changed the face of Gujarat.
It was nominated as one of the best development schemes by IBN-7 conducted Diamond State Awards, in 2007.
Vande Gujarat.