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           Government of                                                                                               Government of Gujarat:
               Gujarat:                                                                                                Jyotigram Yojana
          Jyotigram Yojana                                                                                             Devika Devaiah, Erehwon Innovation Consulting




 Awardee in the Public Service Innovations Category                                                                    Let there be light:
     for the Innovation for India Awards 2010                                                                                   Light has always been the first source in creation.
                                                                                                                       According to Hindu mythology, for example, before the birth of
                                                                                                                       the cosmos, only the “brahman” or divine essence existed in
                                                                                                                       darkness. In order to create the universe, the brahman dispelled
                                                                                                                       the darkness and then proceeded in the act of creation. So the first
                                                                                                                       act brought light to the universe.
                                                                                                                                In fact, light is considered a universal service obligation
                                         Marico Innovation Foundation                                                  to be provided by governments, and this promise was made by the
                                         www.maricoinnovationfoundation.org                                            state governments of India to their people in the 1960's.
                                         namitav@maricoindia.net
                                                                                                                                Cut to the 21st century and this need for light- like a
                                                                                                                       fundamental right; it is still an aspiration for many Indians. At
                                         Erehwon Innovation Consulting                                                 least 12 states in India claim a 100% electrification of their
                                         www.erehwonconsulting.com
                                         info@erehwonconsulting.com                                                    villages. In the fine print lies the truth. 100% electrification does
                                                                                                                       NOT translate to a light in every house. Even if there is an
        Copyright @ 2010 Erehwon Innovation Consulting Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.                                  electrical connection in the house it does NOT translate into 24/7
     The content of the document is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research,    electricity. India's power problems are acute and growing. In fact,
criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced, copied, transmitted in any form
  or by any means (electronic, mechanical or graphic) without the prior written permission of Erehwon Innovation
          Consulting Pvt Ltd. All requests and enquiries should be directed to: info@erehwonconsulting.com
                                                                                                                       come summer and most Indians can only pray 'Let there be light'.
2   Public Service Innovations                                                                                     Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana     3


             Raysan is a village exactly like any other of the 6.3 lakh       away free or subsidised power to agriculture, and cut the power of
    odd villages in India. Population: 1700. Agriculture based                the domestic and industrial sector.
    families. Living in semi-thatched houses. Rearing cows and
    goats. Worried about the rain and their children's education.             Until Jyotigram:
    Nothing to put Raysan on the forefront of our national psyche.                     The power supply chain from power plant to point-of-use
    Except every household in Raysan gets 24/7 electricity, 365 days a        travels through stations, transformers and wires. Traditionally,
    year. Enabling people to pursue small-scale industries or buy TV's        this transmission system is a SINGLE UNIT from which power is
    and refrigerators which actually work rather than just act as show        fed to various sectors for agriculture, industry and domestic use.
    pieces; allowing students to study late into the night. Just like         The Government of Gujarat SPLIT the agriculture power supply
    every one of Gujarat's 18,000 odd villages. Just like every one of        chain from the domestic and industrial power supply chain. In
    Gujarat's 10 million households. 'Let there be light' is a reality        essence, it constructed a whole new parallel transmission system
    here.                                                                     to feed and monitor electricity to agriculture. As a result, the
                                                                              Government of Gujarat began to:
    How did this miracle happen?                                              Ÿ Intelligently ration power supply to farmers. For the first time
              Power supply is a tinderbox issue. It has been caught in a        in the country, farmers in Gujarat received 8 hours of electricity
    vicious political cycle for years across the country. Governments           of guaranteed voltage and timings, whereas previously they
    win elections with promises of free power to the electorate. A              received 13-14 hours of irregular and unreliable supply.
    majority of this free power is used by farmers to run pumps in            Ÿ Charge farmers for power.
    order to access groundwater for irrigation of crops. In fact,             Ÿ Provide households 24/7 power through dedicated domestic
    agriculture consumes close to 85% of a state's power supply. This           feeders.
    overuse by agriculture leaves very little power for domestic and
    industrial purposes resulting in crippling power outages. Consider
                                                                              What made it happen?
    this: if most of the power is subsidised or free, it is no wonder then,
                                                                              From imbalance of power to the balance of power + irrigation:
    that many state electricity boards are bankrupt. Therefore, most
                                                                                        Gujarat saw light when the government recognized an
    electricity boards have neither the funds nor the motivation to
                                                                              imbalance that went unnoticed. Most governments are trapped in
    provide good quality power to the farmers. The result: power
                                                                              the power struggle; farmers hold them ransom for more power and
    supply is erratic, the quality of power is low, and the expensive
                                                                              governments continue to pander to their needs. Everyone
    irrigation pump equipment often gets damaged.
                                                                              recognizes power is needed for irrigation. And therefore they
              However, no one is willing to break this vicious cycle by
                                                                              provide power for irrigation. However, the Government of
    charging for power or by rationing supply. Because history shows,
                                                                              Gujarat saw it a little differently. And this little difference began
    governments that tried to charge for power, lost power instead. So
                                                                              the journey towards a whole new power game. Rather than power
    this became a sacred covenant: to stay in or to win power, give
                                                                              for irrigation, it recast the situation as a power and irrigation
4   Public Service Innovations                                                                                           Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana             5


    problem. Never before had anyone consciously created this link-         actual benefit on ground, their protests turned to praise and
    both power and irrigation, as one. For the first time, Jyotigram as a   acceptance. And so, with intelligent rationing, there was
    solution, would focus on the equation, power + irrigation for           electricity for farmers and light for all.
    reform.And a workable solution began to emerge.
                                                                                   CONVENTIONAL WAY                          JYOTIGRAM YOJNA
             Within the power + irrigation equation, the Government
    of Gujarat had one more realisation: free power without rationing                  Single Feeder                          Separate Feeders
    did not guarantee irrigation. The poor quality and the interrupted
                                                                                          Agriculture                      Agriculture         Domestic
    power created a bigger headache; Every time there was an                                   +                            3 phase:         Single Phase:
                                                                                          Domestic                           8 hours            24 hours
    unscheduled power cut, the irrigation process went back to zero
                                                                                          Impact:                                   Impact:
    and had to restart all over again. The farmer had no way of
                                                                                - All power drawn for                  - Farmers get continuous good
    knowing when the power would return, which means he wasted                    agriculture                            quality electricity on pre-
    much of his time anxiously waiting for the power to come on. And            - Crippling shortage in the              announced schedules.
                                                                                  domestic sector                      - No damage to equipment.
    poor quality electricity resulted in damage of expensive                                                           - The domestic sector gets 24
    equipment. So whereas in theory he was getting unlimited power                                                       hours uninterrupted power
                                                                                                                         supply.
    supply, in reality this power supply was of little help to him in
    irrigation.
                                                                            From insight to implementation: in a record 1000 days!
    So how does the government charge for what was free,                             The Government of Gujarat set up a complete alternate
    and cut the amount of time it is supplied for, and still get            transmission system of power feeders: the heavy duty agricultural
                                                                            feeders that would provide 440 volts for 8 hours a day for
    farmer buy-in?
                                                                            agricultural needs and            Work executed under Jyotigram1
             From the above scenario, a promise to the farmers was
                                                                            regular feeders for 24/7 New High Tension Lines 56,307 Kms
    born- 8 hours uninterrupted, 440 volts, and pre-announced power
                                                                            domestic and industrial New Low Tension Lines 22,146 Kms
    supply. The benefit for farmers: uninterrupted power supply,
                                                                            purposes. Where farms New Transformers               18,724 Nos.
    allowed for water to be drawn and fed with maximum force to
                                                                            a n d h o m e s e x i s t e d Poles erected          17,00,000 Nos.
    crops, without a cease in water flow. 440 volts is the quality of                                     SDT's Installed        3,101 Nos.
                                                                            together, they provided
    electricity required to run pumps, so farmers did not have to                                         Jyotigram Feeders      1,888 Nos.
                                                                            special 'switch over'
    contend with damage to equipment. And a pre-announced 8 hour                                          Project Cost           Rs. 1290 Crores
                                                                            feeders called SDT's to Government Grant             Rs. 1115 Crores
    schedule allowed for farmers to plan their work without wasting
                                                                            switch from 3 phase 440 State Population             5.07 Crores
    time praying for the electricity to come.
                                                                            volts to 2 phase 220 volts No. of Days               1000
             The farmers protested at first, especially as the project
    rolled out. After all, nobody likes the thought of rationing what        1 Beyond State Boundaries, Jyotigram Yojana, Mr. S. Jagadeesan, Principal Secretary,
    was unlimited or paying for what was free. But when they saw the        Energy and PetroChemicals Department
6   Public Service Innovations                                                                                                                    Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana                      7


    after 8 hours, for domestic supply. It called for a significant                          changed expectations of the people of Gujarat. Whereas in the rest
    investment at the beginning. In the record time of 1000 days, the                        of the country, people are resigned to power cuts for long
    new infrastructure was set up.                                                           durations, not so in Gujarat. As one citizen from Ahmedabad said,
                                                                                             “Power never goes in Gujarat. If it does, it is only for 10-minute
    Further work on irrigation:                                                              periods, where a transformer is down and it gets repaired.
              Rather than rest with the implementation of the                                Actually, if the power goes off for more than 20 minutes you can
    separation of feeders, the Gujurat government remained true to                           expect a riot”. So used are people to continuous power supply,
    the insight that this had to be a power + irrigation reform. As Shah                     that a cut of more than 20 minutes is newsworthy, unusual and
    et. al. comment in their insightful study on the state of Gujarat's                      unacceptable!
    agriculture:
              “So they simultaneously introduced the construction of 5                       The benefits are plenty.Astudy by CII and by IRMAhas revealed:
    lakh groundwater recharge structures. Over 1.13 check dams,
                                                                                              Economic impact on households:                   Impact on rural women:
    56,000 bori bunds, and 2.4 lakh farm ponds besides 62,000 other                           Ÿ         Increase in employment.                Increase in time spent of rural women on:
                                                                                                Ÿ       Decrease in migration from the rural   Ÿ             Education by 90%
    structures were constructed under the aegis of the Water                                            areas by 33%.                            Ÿ           Entertainment by 88%
                                                                                                  Impact on Education:                             Ÿ         Social activities by 43%
    Resources Department of the Government of Gujarat”.2                                          Ÿ     Drop out of girl children reduced by         Ÿ       Income generating activities by
                                                                                                        80%.                                                 18%
                                                                                                    Ÿ   School absenteeism reduced by                        Time spent on performing
            This balance of the equation was now complete. While                                        13%.                                                 household chores reduced by 26%.
                                                                                                      Ÿ Average duration of study for                  Impact on Rural Industries:
    the availability of high quality continuous power allowed for                                       girl and boy at home has gone up by            Ÿ     Enabled 53% of families in rural areas
    farmers to draw on groundwater, the groundwater recharge                                            92% and 81% respectively.                            to work during night times.
                                                                                                                                                         Ÿ   Increased momentum in industrial
    structures allowed for replenishing, resulting in a continuous                                                                                           activities such as diamond polishing,
                                                                                                                                                             toiletries, agro processing, etc.
    supply for healthy agriculture.                                                            Source: Impact Assessment of Jyotigram                      Ÿ Improved load management resulting
                                                                                               Yojana in Gujrat, CII, author, IRMA, 2005                     in no load shedding in the state.

    Let's take a look at Jyotigram's multiple impact:
                                                                                             Impact on agriculture:
    Impact on people:
                                                                                                       Contrary to the belief that restriction on electricity would
              As a result of the dedicated domestic feeders, Gujarat is
                                                                                             restrict agriculture, the agricultural output of Gujarat has gone up,
    the first state with 100 % domestic electrification, 24 hours a day,
                                                                                             and Jyotigram is a key driver. Quoting from Tushar et. al. “A
    365 days a week. It means that computers can run, students can
                                                                                             reform that has had by far the most far-reaching impact on
    study late into the night, people have alternatives for
                                                                                             Gujarat's agriculture is Jyotigram Yojana…Rationing of farm
    entertainment, small scale industries can flourish. It means there
                                                                                             power supply post-Jyotigram brought about a certain order and
    is light. On demand. All the time. In fact, this has completely
                                                                                             discipline in the extraction of groundwater, but the improved
    2                                                                                        quality and reliability of farm power supply also made it possible
      ‘Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after 2000',Tushaar Shah, Ashok Gulati, Hemant
    P. Ganga Shreedhar, R C Jain. Economic & Political Weekly, December 26th 2009.           for farmers to make ambitious plans to grow Bt. cotton and wheat
8   Public Service Innovations                                                                                                      Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana     9



    on a large scale”.3 In fact, Gujarat's agriculture output has bucked                       both courage and a peculiar ability to predict the future: that the
                                                th
    all trends and predictions. The 10 plan predicted a growth rate of                         money will be made back in a given period of time. And how well
    4.0 %; instead Gujarat grew at 9.6%, the highest in the country and                        that prediction has worked for Jyotigram. As a result of the
    way above the average of 2.9%.                                                             separate feeders designed to restrict power with a switch over for
                                                                                               domestic purposes only, power theft came down significantly. On
    Impact on groundwater:                                                                     the other hand, 95% of the households (out of 8 districts surveyed
    Gujarat is the only state in India to have turned groundwater                              by IRMA) noted an increase in electricity expense. Consumers
    positive in recent years. This is a significant achievement given                          also ended up buying more electric gadgets. Therefore the entire
    that Gujarat is known to be a drought prone state with 70% of its                          Rs.1115 crores was made back in 2.5 years. So it is not just the
    geographical area classified as semi arid and arid land types!                             supply side of power and irrigation equation that was balanced.
                                                                                               The electricity board benefited with never before revenues, as
                                                                                               well. Once bankrupt, it was revitalized, as revenue collection
                                                                                               increased from 850 crores in 2004-05 to 1231 crores in 2007-08 to
                                                                                               1473 crores in 2008-09. Today, the Gujarat Electricity Board sits
                                                                                               on a happy surplus of 126 crores. Lessons in sick industry revival
                                                                                               anyone? And all this without a single increase in electricity tariffs
                                                                                               for 7 years!

                                                                                               From providing power to trading power: the next big power
                                                                                               game:
                                                                                                        Jyotigram is like a gift that never stops giving. Further
                                                                                               benefits have come to light. For the first time the government was
                                                                                               able to track electricity supply due to the separation of feeders.
              Source: ‘Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after 2000',Tushaar
                 et. al. Economic & Political Weekly, December 26th 2009.                      Under the previous system of common feeders, the power grab by
                                                                                               agriculture was a black hole. It was simply sucked out and nobody
                                                                                               knew how much went where or how: and what cannot be tracked,
    Impact on the state electricity board:                                                     cannot be managed. In Gujarat however, the Minister of Power
            Investing Rs.1115 crores upfront in infrastructure                                 receives a daily SMS update on his mobile phone of exactly how
    development in the form of a parallel transmission system, takes                           much power is to be rationed region-wise, how much is available
                                                                                               and how it has been used. So not only is Gujarat in a position to
                                                                                               monitor and predict future electricity needs; it is in a position to
    3
     'Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after 2000',Tushaar Shah, Ashok Gulati, Hemant P.
                                                                                               trade electricity with other states. A recent quote from a Times of
    Ganga Shreedhar, R C Jain. Economic & Political Weekly, December 26th 2009.
10   Public Service Innovations                                                                                Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana    11


     India article states, “Today, Gujarat has a surplus of 600 MW of      A note...
     power and it will be sold through exchange directly or through the
     Power Trading Corporation. It is already sending 220 MW of            on Marico Innovation Foundation
     power to Tamil Nadu and will soon send 200 MW to Karnataka”.4                  A significant CSR initiative by Marico - the “Marico
              And so, Jyotigram grows from strength to strength.           Innovation Foundation” was founded in 2003 with an objective
              In the meanwhile, the rest of the nation can only look       to fuel Innovation in India. Under the leadership of stalwarts
     towards 10 million brightly lit homes and hope that the light that    like Dr. R A Mashelkar, the Foundation focuses on providing
     started in Gujarat, will one day light 200 million homes across the   the country with a belief that Innovation is a crucial way to
     nation, 24/7, 365 days a year. Truly then, there will be light.       leapfrog into the center stage of global business leadership.
                                                                                    Over the last five years the Foundation has been playing a
                                                                           catalytic role by disseminating knowledge through cutting edge
                                                                           research on breakthrough innovations. Its reach is first
                                                                           envisioned to cover the business community, both professional
                                                                           and entrepreneurial. Going forward the reach will expand to
                                                                           future business leaders and the general public. The Marico
                                                                           Innovation Foundation is steered by an eminent governing
                                                                           council that oversees both its vision and direction.

                                                                           on Erehwon Innovation Consulting
                                                                                   Erehwon Innovation consulting, a premier innovation
                                                                           consulting firm, has brought to the world a pioneering approach
                                                                           and methodology: Orbit- shifting innovationTM. Erehwon has over
                                                                           eighteen years of hands-on experience in being able to instill
                                                                           innovation and shift obits in the most legacy-driven and
                                                                           unresponsive environments across the industry spectrum.
                                                                           Organizations, globally, have recognized Erehwon's unique
                                                                           approach to innovation.
                                                                                   Erehwon has been successfully spearheading the
                                                                           innovation drive across the country and internationally and across
                                                                           multiple forums. As the architects of the awards, Erehwon
                                                                           conducts the necessary search and audit of all nominations filed
                                                                           for the awards in an equal and unbiased manner using its
                                                                           pioneering innovation methodology.
     4
         Times of India, Bangalore Edition, April 13th 2010.

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Jyotigram Yojana : Unique Initiative of Gujarat Government

  • 1. 1 Government of Government of Gujarat: Gujarat: Jyotigram Yojana Jyotigram Yojana Devika Devaiah, Erehwon Innovation Consulting Awardee in the Public Service Innovations Category Let there be light: for the Innovation for India Awards 2010 Light has always been the first source in creation. According to Hindu mythology, for example, before the birth of the cosmos, only the “brahman” or divine essence existed in darkness. In order to create the universe, the brahman dispelled the darkness and then proceeded in the act of creation. So the first act brought light to the universe. In fact, light is considered a universal service obligation Marico Innovation Foundation to be provided by governments, and this promise was made by the www.maricoinnovationfoundation.org state governments of India to their people in the 1960's. namitav@maricoindia.net Cut to the 21st century and this need for light- like a fundamental right; it is still an aspiration for many Indians. At Erehwon Innovation Consulting least 12 states in India claim a 100% electrification of their www.erehwonconsulting.com info@erehwonconsulting.com villages. In the fine print lies the truth. 100% electrification does NOT translate to a light in every house. Even if there is an Copyright @ 2010 Erehwon Innovation Consulting Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved. electrical connection in the house it does NOT translate into 24/7 The content of the document is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, electricity. India's power problems are acute and growing. In fact, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced, copied, transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical or graphic) without the prior written permission of Erehwon Innovation Consulting Pvt Ltd. All requests and enquiries should be directed to: info@erehwonconsulting.com come summer and most Indians can only pray 'Let there be light'.
  • 2. 2 Public Service Innovations Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana 3 Raysan is a village exactly like any other of the 6.3 lakh away free or subsidised power to agriculture, and cut the power of odd villages in India. Population: 1700. Agriculture based the domestic and industrial sector. families. Living in semi-thatched houses. Rearing cows and goats. Worried about the rain and their children's education. Until Jyotigram: Nothing to put Raysan on the forefront of our national psyche. The power supply chain from power plant to point-of-use Except every household in Raysan gets 24/7 electricity, 365 days a travels through stations, transformers and wires. Traditionally, year. Enabling people to pursue small-scale industries or buy TV's this transmission system is a SINGLE UNIT from which power is and refrigerators which actually work rather than just act as show fed to various sectors for agriculture, industry and domestic use. pieces; allowing students to study late into the night. Just like The Government of Gujarat SPLIT the agriculture power supply every one of Gujarat's 18,000 odd villages. Just like every one of chain from the domestic and industrial power supply chain. In Gujarat's 10 million households. 'Let there be light' is a reality essence, it constructed a whole new parallel transmission system here. to feed and monitor electricity to agriculture. As a result, the Government of Gujarat began to: How did this miracle happen? Ÿ Intelligently ration power supply to farmers. For the first time Power supply is a tinderbox issue. It has been caught in a in the country, farmers in Gujarat received 8 hours of electricity vicious political cycle for years across the country. Governments of guaranteed voltage and timings, whereas previously they win elections with promises of free power to the electorate. A received 13-14 hours of irregular and unreliable supply. majority of this free power is used by farmers to run pumps in Ÿ Charge farmers for power. order to access groundwater for irrigation of crops. In fact, Ÿ Provide households 24/7 power through dedicated domestic agriculture consumes close to 85% of a state's power supply. This feeders. overuse by agriculture leaves very little power for domestic and industrial purposes resulting in crippling power outages. Consider What made it happen? this: if most of the power is subsidised or free, it is no wonder then, From imbalance of power to the balance of power + irrigation: that many state electricity boards are bankrupt. Therefore, most Gujarat saw light when the government recognized an electricity boards have neither the funds nor the motivation to imbalance that went unnoticed. Most governments are trapped in provide good quality power to the farmers. The result: power the power struggle; farmers hold them ransom for more power and supply is erratic, the quality of power is low, and the expensive governments continue to pander to their needs. Everyone irrigation pump equipment often gets damaged. recognizes power is needed for irrigation. And therefore they However, no one is willing to break this vicious cycle by provide power for irrigation. However, the Government of charging for power or by rationing supply. Because history shows, Gujarat saw it a little differently. And this little difference began governments that tried to charge for power, lost power instead. So the journey towards a whole new power game. Rather than power this became a sacred covenant: to stay in or to win power, give for irrigation, it recast the situation as a power and irrigation
  • 3. 4 Public Service Innovations Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana 5 problem. Never before had anyone consciously created this link- actual benefit on ground, their protests turned to praise and both power and irrigation, as one. For the first time, Jyotigram as a acceptance. And so, with intelligent rationing, there was solution, would focus on the equation, power + irrigation for electricity for farmers and light for all. reform.And a workable solution began to emerge. CONVENTIONAL WAY JYOTIGRAM YOJNA Within the power + irrigation equation, the Government of Gujarat had one more realisation: free power without rationing Single Feeder Separate Feeders did not guarantee irrigation. The poor quality and the interrupted Agriculture Agriculture Domestic power created a bigger headache; Every time there was an + 3 phase: Single Phase: Domestic 8 hours 24 hours unscheduled power cut, the irrigation process went back to zero Impact: Impact: and had to restart all over again. The farmer had no way of - All power drawn for - Farmers get continuous good knowing when the power would return, which means he wasted agriculture quality electricity on pre- much of his time anxiously waiting for the power to come on. And - Crippling shortage in the announced schedules. domestic sector - No damage to equipment. poor quality electricity resulted in damage of expensive - The domestic sector gets 24 equipment. So whereas in theory he was getting unlimited power hours uninterrupted power supply. supply, in reality this power supply was of little help to him in irrigation. From insight to implementation: in a record 1000 days! So how does the government charge for what was free, The Government of Gujarat set up a complete alternate and cut the amount of time it is supplied for, and still get transmission system of power feeders: the heavy duty agricultural feeders that would provide 440 volts for 8 hours a day for farmer buy-in? agricultural needs and Work executed under Jyotigram1 From the above scenario, a promise to the farmers was regular feeders for 24/7 New High Tension Lines 56,307 Kms born- 8 hours uninterrupted, 440 volts, and pre-announced power domestic and industrial New Low Tension Lines 22,146 Kms supply. The benefit for farmers: uninterrupted power supply, purposes. Where farms New Transformers 18,724 Nos. allowed for water to be drawn and fed with maximum force to a n d h o m e s e x i s t e d Poles erected 17,00,000 Nos. crops, without a cease in water flow. 440 volts is the quality of SDT's Installed 3,101 Nos. together, they provided electricity required to run pumps, so farmers did not have to Jyotigram Feeders 1,888 Nos. special 'switch over' contend with damage to equipment. And a pre-announced 8 hour Project Cost Rs. 1290 Crores feeders called SDT's to Government Grant Rs. 1115 Crores schedule allowed for farmers to plan their work without wasting switch from 3 phase 440 State Population 5.07 Crores time praying for the electricity to come. volts to 2 phase 220 volts No. of Days 1000 The farmers protested at first, especially as the project rolled out. After all, nobody likes the thought of rationing what 1 Beyond State Boundaries, Jyotigram Yojana, Mr. S. Jagadeesan, Principal Secretary, was unlimited or paying for what was free. But when they saw the Energy and PetroChemicals Department
  • 4. 6 Public Service Innovations Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana 7 after 8 hours, for domestic supply. It called for a significant changed expectations of the people of Gujarat. Whereas in the rest investment at the beginning. In the record time of 1000 days, the of the country, people are resigned to power cuts for long new infrastructure was set up. durations, not so in Gujarat. As one citizen from Ahmedabad said, “Power never goes in Gujarat. If it does, it is only for 10-minute Further work on irrigation: periods, where a transformer is down and it gets repaired. Rather than rest with the implementation of the Actually, if the power goes off for more than 20 minutes you can separation of feeders, the Gujurat government remained true to expect a riot”. So used are people to continuous power supply, the insight that this had to be a power + irrigation reform. As Shah that a cut of more than 20 minutes is newsworthy, unusual and et. al. comment in their insightful study on the state of Gujarat's unacceptable! agriculture: “So they simultaneously introduced the construction of 5 The benefits are plenty.Astudy by CII and by IRMAhas revealed: lakh groundwater recharge structures. Over 1.13 check dams, Economic impact on households: Impact on rural women: 56,000 bori bunds, and 2.4 lakh farm ponds besides 62,000 other Ÿ Increase in employment. Increase in time spent of rural women on: Ÿ Decrease in migration from the rural Ÿ Education by 90% structures were constructed under the aegis of the Water areas by 33%. Ÿ Entertainment by 88% Impact on Education: Ÿ Social activities by 43% Resources Department of the Government of Gujarat”.2 Ÿ Drop out of girl children reduced by Ÿ Income generating activities by 80%. 18% Ÿ School absenteeism reduced by Time spent on performing This balance of the equation was now complete. While 13%. household chores reduced by 26%. Ÿ Average duration of study for Impact on Rural Industries: the availability of high quality continuous power allowed for girl and boy at home has gone up by Ÿ Enabled 53% of families in rural areas farmers to draw on groundwater, the groundwater recharge 92% and 81% respectively. to work during night times. Ÿ Increased momentum in industrial structures allowed for replenishing, resulting in a continuous activities such as diamond polishing, toiletries, agro processing, etc. supply for healthy agriculture. Source: Impact Assessment of Jyotigram Ÿ Improved load management resulting Yojana in Gujrat, CII, author, IRMA, 2005 in no load shedding in the state. Let's take a look at Jyotigram's multiple impact: Impact on agriculture: Impact on people: Contrary to the belief that restriction on electricity would As a result of the dedicated domestic feeders, Gujarat is restrict agriculture, the agricultural output of Gujarat has gone up, the first state with 100 % domestic electrification, 24 hours a day, and Jyotigram is a key driver. Quoting from Tushar et. al. “A 365 days a week. It means that computers can run, students can reform that has had by far the most far-reaching impact on study late into the night, people have alternatives for Gujarat's agriculture is Jyotigram Yojana…Rationing of farm entertainment, small scale industries can flourish. It means there power supply post-Jyotigram brought about a certain order and is light. On demand. All the time. In fact, this has completely discipline in the extraction of groundwater, but the improved 2 quality and reliability of farm power supply also made it possible ‘Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after 2000',Tushaar Shah, Ashok Gulati, Hemant P. Ganga Shreedhar, R C Jain. Economic & Political Weekly, December 26th 2009. for farmers to make ambitious plans to grow Bt. cotton and wheat
  • 5. 8 Public Service Innovations Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana 9 on a large scale”.3 In fact, Gujarat's agriculture output has bucked both courage and a peculiar ability to predict the future: that the th all trends and predictions. The 10 plan predicted a growth rate of money will be made back in a given period of time. And how well 4.0 %; instead Gujarat grew at 9.6%, the highest in the country and that prediction has worked for Jyotigram. As a result of the way above the average of 2.9%. separate feeders designed to restrict power with a switch over for domestic purposes only, power theft came down significantly. On Impact on groundwater: the other hand, 95% of the households (out of 8 districts surveyed Gujarat is the only state in India to have turned groundwater by IRMA) noted an increase in electricity expense. Consumers positive in recent years. This is a significant achievement given also ended up buying more electric gadgets. Therefore the entire that Gujarat is known to be a drought prone state with 70% of its Rs.1115 crores was made back in 2.5 years. So it is not just the geographical area classified as semi arid and arid land types! supply side of power and irrigation equation that was balanced. The electricity board benefited with never before revenues, as well. Once bankrupt, it was revitalized, as revenue collection increased from 850 crores in 2004-05 to 1231 crores in 2007-08 to 1473 crores in 2008-09. Today, the Gujarat Electricity Board sits on a happy surplus of 126 crores. Lessons in sick industry revival anyone? And all this without a single increase in electricity tariffs for 7 years! From providing power to trading power: the next big power game: Jyotigram is like a gift that never stops giving. Further benefits have come to light. For the first time the government was able to track electricity supply due to the separation of feeders. Source: ‘Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after 2000',Tushaar et. al. Economic & Political Weekly, December 26th 2009. Under the previous system of common feeders, the power grab by agriculture was a black hole. It was simply sucked out and nobody knew how much went where or how: and what cannot be tracked, Impact on the state electricity board: cannot be managed. In Gujarat however, the Minister of Power Investing Rs.1115 crores upfront in infrastructure receives a daily SMS update on his mobile phone of exactly how development in the form of a parallel transmission system, takes much power is to be rationed region-wise, how much is available and how it has been used. So not only is Gujarat in a position to monitor and predict future electricity needs; it is in a position to 3 'Secret of Gujarat's Agrarian Miracle after 2000',Tushaar Shah, Ashok Gulati, Hemant P. trade electricity with other states. A recent quote from a Times of Ganga Shreedhar, R C Jain. Economic & Political Weekly, December 26th 2009.
  • 6. 10 Public Service Innovations Innovation 1: Jyotigram Yojana 11 India article states, “Today, Gujarat has a surplus of 600 MW of A note... power and it will be sold through exchange directly or through the Power Trading Corporation. It is already sending 220 MW of on Marico Innovation Foundation power to Tamil Nadu and will soon send 200 MW to Karnataka”.4 A significant CSR initiative by Marico - the “Marico And so, Jyotigram grows from strength to strength. Innovation Foundation” was founded in 2003 with an objective In the meanwhile, the rest of the nation can only look to fuel Innovation in India. Under the leadership of stalwarts towards 10 million brightly lit homes and hope that the light that like Dr. R A Mashelkar, the Foundation focuses on providing started in Gujarat, will one day light 200 million homes across the the country with a belief that Innovation is a crucial way to nation, 24/7, 365 days a year. Truly then, there will be light. leapfrog into the center stage of global business leadership. Over the last five years the Foundation has been playing a catalytic role by disseminating knowledge through cutting edge research on breakthrough innovations. Its reach is first envisioned to cover the business community, both professional and entrepreneurial. Going forward the reach will expand to future business leaders and the general public. The Marico Innovation Foundation is steered by an eminent governing council that oversees both its vision and direction. on Erehwon Innovation Consulting Erehwon Innovation consulting, a premier innovation consulting firm, has brought to the world a pioneering approach and methodology: Orbit- shifting innovationTM. Erehwon has over eighteen years of hands-on experience in being able to instill innovation and shift obits in the most legacy-driven and unresponsive environments across the industry spectrum. Organizations, globally, have recognized Erehwon's unique approach to innovation. Erehwon has been successfully spearheading the innovation drive across the country and internationally and across multiple forums. As the architects of the awards, Erehwon conducts the necessary search and audit of all nominations filed for the awards in an equal and unbiased manner using its pioneering innovation methodology. 4 Times of India, Bangalore Edition, April 13th 2010.