In order to bring about more transparency and accountability in its undertakings, the Union power ministry under Piyush Goyal released its GARV app last year, which monitors the progress of the rural electrification scheme and provides real-time updates.
According to a report in the Business Standard, a second version of the app - GARV II - will soon be launched. Officials told the newspaper that the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) is in the final stages of designing the upgraded app.
Earlier, the app was limited to monitoring only un-electrified villages but the version 2.0 is likely to provide details of state government expenditure on electrifying villages. It will also give details of metering, supply and outages of for all households, the report said.
In order to accomplish its promise of electrifying 18,000 villages without power by 2017 and provide 24x7 electricity to every household by 2019, the NDA government launched the GARV app to keep a check on how states are utilising their funds. But, this did not cover how many actual households were actually receiving power.
With added features in GARV II, these shortcomings will likely be covered and better fact-checking will be established.
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