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2016

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following mobile app has launched by Union Minister of Power to provide village-wise and habitation-wise baseline data on household electrification for all the states.
A
myGov
B
MEAIndia
C
Incredible India
D
GARV-II
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The GARV app was released by the Indian Union Power Ministry under Piyush Goyal in 2015 to monitor the progress of the government’s rural electrification scheme and to provide real-time updates of 18, 452 un-electrified villages of the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance, is a mobile app, a Digital India initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, by the Government of India for access to central and state government services.

Detailed explanation-3: -“The erstwhile Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) scheme for village electrification and providing electricity distribution infrastructure in the rural areas has been subsumed in the DDUGJY scheme. Rural Electrification Corporation is the Nodal Agency for implementation of DDUGJY.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Ministry of Power has launched a new app, GARV-II app to provide real-time data of all six lakh villages of the country. The app is envisaged to ensure transparency in the implementation of rural electrification programme.

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