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The advent of distributed energy resources is undoubtedly transforming the nature of the electric power system. The crisis of conventional energy sources and their environmental effects resulted in the integration of Distributed Generators (DGs) into the distribution system. Simultaneous application of optimum network reconfiguration, DGs, and Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM) unit’s placement in the Radial Distribution Systems (RDS) comes with a raft of technical, economic, and environmental benefits. Benefits include improved power quality, reliability, stability, mitigation of power losses, and voltage profile improvement. In this paper, the combinational process of optimal deployment of DGs and DSTATCOM units in RDS with suitable network reconfiguration to achieve positive benefits has been analyzed. A recent metaphor-less based Artificial intelligence (AI) technique named the Rao-1 method is employed to overcome this combinational nonlinear optimization problem. The objective functions are to mitigate the power losses, enhance the voltage profile, and voltage stability index of the RDS considering the net economic cost-benefit to the distribution utility. The simulation study of this pragmatic approach problem is carried out on IEEE 33-bus RDS. The comparison of the results obtained by the Rao-1 method with other existing meta-heuristic optimization methods has been made to show its efficacy.