Solar Irrigation Pumpsets Scheme

Date : 01/04/2015 - 31/12/2018 | Sector: Agriculture

Solar Irrigation Pumpsets is being implemented with Rs. 1 Lakh beneficiary share for General Category and free of cost for Schedule Cast and Shedule tribe beneficiaries.

Farmers seeking new power supply connection is eligible for this scheme. Solar Irrigation Pumpsets project is being implemented in 4 phases as below:

Sl. No.	Phase	No. of pumps	Price/Pump in lakhs	No. of Taluks Covered	Progress as on Mar-18
1	1st phase	1009	4.66	11	971
2	2nd Phase	1530	3.74	48	291
3	3rd phase	901	4.99
4	4th phase	1266	3.29	Talukwise allotment yet to be given
Total		4706		87.22	1262

Under Phase-1 as on Mar-18, 971 No’s of Solar Irrigation Pumpsets have been provided to the beneficiries, in this 191 No’s of Solar Pumpsets have been provided to SC/ST beneficiries. Details as below:

Sl No	Company	Allotted Solar Pumpsets	Installed Solar Pumpsets
1	BESCOM	234	224
2	CESC	150	131
3	GESCOM	200	198
4	HESCOM	425	418
5	MESCOM	0	0
TOTAL		1009	971

Under Phase-2 as on Mar-18, 291 No’s of Solar Irrigation Pumpsets have been provided to the beneficiries, in this 99 No’s of Solar Pumpsets have been provided to SC/ST beneficiries. Details as below:

Sl No	Company	Allotted Solar Pumpsets	Installed Solar Pumpsets
1	BESCOM	410	71
2	CESC	350	52
3	GESCOM	320	63
4	HESCOM	450	105
5	MESCOM	0	0
TOTAL		1530	291

Beneficiary:

Farmers

Benefits:

Uninterrupted Power Supply to the farmers