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• Government of India launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in 2014 for strengthening the electricity distribution system. 
• The work included setting up new substation, separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders; augmentation of old substation adding 850000 ckt. of HT&LT lines; adding transformers and electrification of villages across the country. 
• For villages where grid connectivity was neither feasible nor cost effective, the electrification was done through off grid modes.  
• The erstwhile Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) was subsumed under DDUGJY.

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• A total of 18374 villages were electrified under DDUGJY.

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