All identified 2.5 cr unelectrifed households to be energised by March: FM Piyush Goyal in Budget 2019As many as 28,594 households including 8,460 in Rajasthan and 20,134 in Chhattisgarh are yet to be electrified.
India to achieve universal household electrification by January-endIndia is all set to achieve 100 per cent household electrification by this month end.
UP Gets Rs 1,500 crore grant for meeting deadline on 100% electrificationThe achievement came as a surprise to many as at the beginning of December, the state had faced a daunting task of energizing 55 lakh house...
Every household to be electrified by Dec 31 under Saubhagya: Power minister R K SinghR K Singh asserted that the target of 100 per cent electrification would be achieved by December 31.
Saubhagya scheme: UP's Kheri district stays at bottom of electricity driveA UP district would qualify as India's dark spot as it has the most un-electrified households in India.
Saubhagya scheme drags down government’s Extended Gram Swaraj MissionOnly one-third has been completed with 1.14 cr households electrified out of the total 3.5 cr houses.
Power Ministry mulls Rs 50 crore reward for discoms under SaubhagyaThe move is aimed at incentivising state discoms to compete against each other to give a push to achieve the objective of 100 per cent hous...
BharatNet has a new target: Connect every village homeUnder ‘Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana’, or ‘Saubhagya’, electricity is to be provided to nearly 40 million village homes by the...
Electrifying villages: UP, Bihar to be big test for Saubhagya schemeSharma said while 6.5 lakh electricity connections had been provided in the past 14 years in UP, the BJP govt led by Yogi Adityanath had gi...
Uttar Pradesh plans light for all in one year to power 2019 pollsOut of the 4.12 crore un-electrified households to be covered under the Saubhagya scheme by December 2018, 1.56 crore households are in Utt...
Government to push prepaid, smart meters in universal electrification drivePrime Minister Narendra Modi in September launched the Saubhagya scheme to electrify four crore un-electrified households in the country by...
Saubhagya scheme to be in spotlight at power ministers' meetPM Narendra Modi had launched the Saubhagya scheme in September to achieve 100 per cent electrification of households by December, 2018.
Power Ministry to meet states on Wednesday for Saubhagya implementationThe meeting will discuss the present status of household electrification, state-wise existing schemes, states' preparedness and implementat...
Nearly six-fold jump in electrification pace needed to meet Saubhagya targetsThe government will have to electrify about 2.7 mn households every month to cover more than 40 mn households in the next 15 months, as per...
Saubhagya scheme to create additional power demand of 28,000 MW in the countryThere will be requirement of additional power of about 28,000-mw and additional energy of about 80,000 million units per annum.
No free power for poor under Saubhagya; demand to rise by 28GWThe FAQ further said connecting 4 crore left-out families under Saubhagya will increase the electricity requirement by 28,000 MW or 80,000 ...
PM Modi invokes Edison to highlight Rs 16,000 crore Saubhagya scheme benefitsUnder Saubhagya, the government plans to ensure electrification of all households with the central government providing a gross budgetary s...