The Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme was approved by the .
About the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme:
It is a reform-based and results-oriented scheme to improve the operational efficiencies and financial sustainability of all DISCOMs/Power Departments, with the exception of Private Sector DISCOMs.
The scheme envisages providing conditional financial assistance to DISCOM to strengthen the supply Infrastructure.
Assistance will be based on meeting pre-qualification criteria and basic minimum benchmarks achieved by DISCOM. These will be evaluated according to an agreed evaluation framework related to financial improvement.
Rather than a “one-size-fits-all” approach, each state would develop its own action plan for implementing the scheme.
The scheme proposes to incorporate the ongoing schemes of IPDS, DDUGJY, and PMDP-2015 for the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The scheme will be available until 2025-26.
REC Limited and Power Finance Corporation (PFC) serve as nodal agencies for the scheme’s implementation.
The scheme focuses on improving farmers’ electricity supply and providing them with daytime electricity through solarization of agricultural feeders.