Rural Feeder Monitoring Scheme and URJA MITRA App
Source : Central Electricity Authority
GS III : Infrastructure
What is the Aim?
The Government is engaged in preparing the Nation to truly get 24×7 affordable, quality and uninterrupted adequate power. Minstry launch of ‘URJA MITRA App’ and inauguration of the ‘Rural Feeder Monitoring Scheme’
URJA MITRA
- Empowers citizens by real time information sharing on power supply.
- The app is a first of its kind application which provides a central platform, Web-Portal (www.urjamitra.com) as well as Mobile App (iOS version and android version), for State Power Distribution utilities
- To disseminate power outage information to urban/rural power consumers across India through SMS/email/push notifications.
Rural Feeder Monitoring Scheme
- The Government has launched ‘Rural Feeder Monitoring Scheme’ to monitor the quantity and quality parameters of power supply in
Image by Nicole Köhler from Pixabay rural areas of the country.
- The entire data shall also be hosted on National Power Portal (NPP) on real time basis and may be accessed by various stake holders through web services.
- Government has set December 2017 as the deadline to achieve 100% rural feeder monitoring by installing additional meters and modems on all feeders across the country, in order to facilitate real time communication of faults appearing in the power supply.
- These meters would be geo-tagged to pin point the cause and location of the fault and address it at the earliest.
Details of Scheme
- To capture real time supply parameters of rural India by monitoring the availability/quality of power supply in rural areas of the country by capturing actual distribution parameters- Power supply, outages and conduct feeder wise Energy audit and AT&C losses estimation.
- This will help to ensure achievement of “24 x7 Power for All”, vision of government of India,
- In order to meet above objective, Ministry of Power, GoI has introduced a scheme namely “11 kV Rural Feeder Monitoring Scheme”.
- Appointed REC Transmission Projects Company Limited as Implementing Agency for the same.
- Under the Scheme, rural feeders meter data shall be acquired through modem and shall be send to central MDAS for further analysis by all stake holders.
- The System would help for monitoring power supply, proper planning, decision support and taking corrective actions on the business activities in addition to transparently disseminating the power supply status.
- The System would further facilitate consolidation of various parameters downloaded from the meters installed on the feeders into a common database thus enabling generation of various holistic MIS reports for analysis and actions.
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