Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in her 2025-26 funds presentation, introduced an allocation of Rs 100 crore for a pilot challenge to shift overhead electrical energy cables underground. This initiative goals to reinforce the town’s safety and aesthetics.
Gupta, who additionally holds the finance portfolio, allotted a complete of Rs 3,847 crore to the town authorities’s energy division. This represents a rise from the earlier AAP authorities’s allocation of Rs 3,353 crore within the 2024-25 funds.
This funds marks the primary offered by a BJP-led authorities in Delhi in over 26 years, following their current meeting election victory.
Throughout her speech within the Delhi Meeting, Gupta emphasised the security and aesthetic issues related to overhead wires. She said that the Rs 100 crore “shifting of HT/LT transmission lines” scheme will guarantee all overhead cables are laid underground, contributing to a safer, cleaner, and fashionable Delhi.
Gupta reiterated her authorities’s dedication to offering uninterrupted and reasonably priced electrical energy to all Delhi residents. She described the Rs 3,847 crore allocation to the Energy Division as a vital step in direction of reaching vitality self-reliance and a clear future for the capital.
She additionally highlighted the federal government’s precedence of guaranteeing 24-hour uninterrupted electrical energy and harassed the necessity to enhance home energy technology from clear and renewable sources to satisfy the town’s rising electrical energy calls for and assist its financial development.
The Delhi authorities is within the strategy of signing an settlement with the Ministry of New and Renewable Power of the central authorities to implement the ‘PM Surya Ghar: Free Electrical energy Scheme’ in Delhi, she shared.
“Under this scheme, a subsidy of up to Rs 78,000 will be provided to the residential consumers of Delhi. To make this initiative more effective, my government is proposing a new scheme called ‘PM Surya Ghar: Free Electricity Scheme – State Top Up, for which a budget of Rs 50 crore has been allocated. Under this scheme, 2.3 lakh residential rooftops will be equipped with solar energy in the next three years,” she stated.
Laying the roadmap for the ability sector, she stated Delhi is now on its option to turning into an energy-smart metropolis, the place each dwelling shall be illuminated, each business will flourish and the longer term shall be brightened by inexperienced vitality.
(With Inputs From PTI)
