Update on rural electrification project of union government
According to the Ministry of Power, the project has been taken on mission mode and strategy for electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and also dividing village electrification process in 12 Stage milestones with defined timelines for monitoring.
Out of the remaining 10,798 villages, 445 villages are uninhabited; 6,989 villages are to be electrified through grid, 2,977 villages to be electrified through off- grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 387 villages are to be electrified by the state governments.
Between April 2015 and August 14, 2015, 1654 villages were electrified.
Between May 2 and 8, 105 villages have been electrified across the country under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).
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