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सौभाग्य (प्रधानमंत्री सहज बिजली हर घर योजना)
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कनेक्शन के मामले में दावा मोटे तौर पर सही है — सौभाग्य और दीनदयाल उपाध्याय ग्राम ज्योति योजना ने मिलकर मार्च 2022 में योजना बंद होने तक 2.86 करोड़ परिवारों का विद्युतीकरण किया। 24×7 आपूर्ति पर दिसंबर 2025 में संसद में रखी कैग निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा बताती है कि दावा कहाँ बढ़-चढ़कर है: लेखापरीक्षा के अपने लाभार्थी सर्वेक्षण में 11 राज्यों के 27 प्रतिशत उत्तरदाताओं ने दिन में 12 घंटे से कम बिजली बताई। लेखापरीक्षा यह भी दर्ज करती है कि पहले का ‘सभी गाँव’ पड़ाव उस परिभाषा पर टिका था जो 10 प्रतिशत घरों पर गाँव को विद्युतीकृत मान लेती थी, और योजना बंद होने पर जम्मू-कश्मीर के 1,092 गाँव आंशिक रूप से ही विद्युतीकृत थे।
“हमने सभी को 24×7 बिजली देने की प्रतिबद्धता जताई थी और देश ने वह लक्ष्य काफ़ी हद तक पा लिया है… शेष लगभग सभी परिवारों को बिजली कनेक्शन दे दिया गया है… भारत अब यह कह सकता है कि बिजली की मात्रा या उस तक पहुँच अब मुद्दा नहीं है।”लेखापरीक्षा अवधि: 1 अप्रैल 2014 — 31 दिस॰ 2023
गाँव तब विद्युतीकृत गिना जाता था जब उसके 10 प्रतिशत घरों तक बिजली पहुँच जाए, इसलिए ग्राम विद्युतीकरण का अर्थ घरेलू विद्युतीकरण नहीं था; राज्यों के अपने आँकड़ों के अनुसार अक्तूबर 2017 में 4.04 करोड़ ग्रामीण परिवार — 22.52 प्रतिशत — अविद्युतीकृत थे, यानी ‘सभी गाँव’ की घोषणा से छह महीने पहले। मार्च 2022 में योजना बंद होने तक लद्दाख सहित जम्मू-कश्मीर के 1,092 गाँव आंशिक रूप से विद्युतीकृत थे और राजस्थान व त्रिपुरा के 2,722 गाँवों के सार्वजनिक स्थान शेष थे। लेखापरीक्षा के लाभार्थी सर्वेक्षण में 11 राज्यों के 27 प्रतिशत उत्तरदाताओं ने दिन में 12 घंटे से कम आपूर्ति बताई। विद्युत मंत्रालय कनेक्शन लेने से इनकार करने वाले परिवारों का आँकड़ा नहीं दे सका क्योंकि उसने रखा ही नहीं था। योजना बंद होने तक दोनों योजनाओं में 2.86 करोड़ परिवारों का विद्युतीकरण हुआ।
लेखापरीक्षा अवधि
2.86 crore households electrified under SAUBHAGYA and DDUGJY by scheme closure
लेखापरीक्षा 2014-15 से दिसंबर 2023 तक को कवर करती है। उसके बाद के वितरण सुधार और आपूर्ति-घंटों में सुधार उसके दायरे से बाहर हैं।
Performance Audit on Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana / Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (SAUBHAGYA)
The 2019 Sankalp Patra treats electricity as a finished job. "We had made a commitment to provide 24x7 electricity to all and the country has substantially attained the goal," it says, and adds that "almost all remaining households have been provided with an electricity connection" and that "India can now claim that quantum of or access to electricity is no longer an issue."
That is two claims stacked on each other: connections, and supply. They deserve separate answers.
On connections, the claim is largely sound. SAUBHAGYA, launched October 2017, existed precisely to reach the households that village-level electrification had missed, and the CAG's performance audit of it and DDUGJY — tabled on 18 December 2025 — records 2.86 crore households electrified under the two schemes together by the time they closed in March 2022. That is an enormous programme delivered in under five years, and the manifesto was entitled to claim it.
On supply, the audit contradicts the claim directly, using its own fieldwork rather than departmental data. In its beneficiary survey, "27 per cent of respondents in 11 states reported less than 12 hours of power supply a day." A household with a meter and six hours of electricity has access in the administrative sense and not in any other. "24x7 electricity to all… substantially attained" cannot survive that finding.
The audit also puts the earlier milestone the manifesto leans on into context. The announcement of 28 April 2018 that every inhabited census village was electrified rested on a definition: "the village was considered electrified even with electrification of 10 per cent households as per the then adopted definition." On the states' own numbers, "as on 10 October 2017, 13.90 crore out of 17.94 crore rural households, were electrified and the remaining 4.04 crore households (22.52 per cent) were un-electrified" — six months before the announcement.
And even against that definition, the record was not complete when the schemes closed. The audit "noticed that till closure of the scheme (March 2022), 1,092 villages in Jammu and Kashmir (including Ladakh) were partially electrified and public places in 2,722 villages of Rajasthan and Tripura were yet to be electrified."
One gap in the record is worth noting because it bears on how the remaining un-electrified households are explained. Asked for data on households that were offered a connection and declined, the Ministry of Power could not supply it — it had not maintained any.
Connections were delivered at scale, which is why this verdict is partly accurate rather than not supported. The claim that access to electricity "is no longer an issue" is the part the audited record does not support.
BJP Sankalp Patra 2019 — Lok Sabha election manifesto
“Through this Sankalp Patra, you would get a glimpse of the challenges of the yesteryears, the indomitable efforts made by 130 crore Indians to overcome those challenges and our collective vision for the future… There are two commitments that I am extremely passionate about — doubling of farmer income and housing for all, by the year 2022.”
Performance Audit on Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana / Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (SAUBHAGYA)
“Village electrification, however, did not result in electrification of all the households, as the village was considered electrified even with electrification of 10 per cent households as per the then adopted definition. As per the data provided by the States as on 10 October 2017, 13.90 crore out of 17.94 crore rural households, were electrified and the remaining 4.04 crore households (22.52 per cent) were un-electrified.”