Chandigarh (Balwinder Singh): A high-level review meeting was convened in Panchkula on Friday to accelerate the implementation and monitor the progress of the Pradhan Mantri Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSGMBY) across Haryana. The strategic session was presided over by Vikram Singh, Special Secretary (Energy) for the Government of India and Managing Director of both the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN). Singh conducted an exhaustive assessment of incoming user applications, commercial feasibility approvals, physical rooftop installations, and localized backlogs, ordering field officers to eliminate procedural bottlenecks and deliver time-bound fiscal benefits to clean-energy subscribers.
The Managing Director issued strict operational directives to state empanelled vendors and technical teams to aggressively ramp up solar panel installations while maintaining rigorous national quality control standards. To streamline technical coordination and address ground-level equipment shortages, the power corporations will institute a mandatory coordination forum, scheduled to meet regularly on the first Wednesday of every month. Furthermore, representatives from major banking institutions attending the session were urged to simplify collateral-free loan evaluation frameworks and fast-track credit distributions, ensuring that middle-income residential consumers face no financial hurdles during grid-connected rooftop integration.
According to the comprehensive performance index reviewed during the conclave, the state’s power distribution companies have collectively commissioned 81,735 high-efficiency solar connections. Breaking down the performance matrices across jurisdictional circles, DHBVN has successfully activated 36,130 rooftop units out of its assigned state target of 122,000 installations. Concurrently, UHBVN has realized 45,605 clean-energy connections against its targeted benchmark of 100,000 households. To bridge the remaining gap, Singh instructed regional executive engineers to launch extensive rural awareness drives emphasizing the long-term economic relief of the central subsidy scheme, which guarantees up to 300 units of free monthly electricity while actively lowering regional transmission losses.
