Apart from discoms, the employees would also collectively get Rs 50 lakh award for completing the task of electrifying household under the ...

A UP district would qualify as India's dark spot as it has the most un-electrified households in India.

The extended GSA — an outreach programme to deliver welfare schemes to villages — started on June 1 and is already being monitored by more ...

The 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...

Out 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...

Talking about the renewables, Singh said clean energy would edge out fossil fuels, particularly petroleum, which is strategically in favour...

The biennial conference would be chaired by Minister of State for Power R K Singh.

The pre-paid meters, which will allow consumers to pay beforehand for their electricity usage, are most likely to be supplied between Febru...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September launched the Saubhagya scheme to electrify four crore un-electrified households in the country by...

PM Narendra Modi had launched the Saubhagya scheme in September to achieve 100 per cent electrification of households by December, 2018.

India Post through its network 1.73 lakh outlets has begun collecting data on un-electrified households spread over three states of Odisha,...

The meeting will discuss the present status of household electrification, state-wise existing schemes, states' preparedness and implementat...

The 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...

There will be requirement of additional power of about 28,000-mw and additional energy of about 80,000 million units per annum.

The FAQ further said connecting 4 crore left-out families under Saubhagya will increase the electricity requirement by 28,000 MW or 80,000 ...

The total outlay for the scheme will be Rs 16,320 crore. The rural household outlay is estimated to be Rs 14025 cr, with Rs 2295 cr being f...

Under Saubhagya, the government plans to ensure electrification of all households with the central government providing a gross budgetary s...