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Why India’s green transition must move beyond large-scale renewable projectsAs India pursues ambitious climate and renewable energy goals, decentralised clean energy solutions are emerging as a critical driver of ru...
The power turnaround of Uttar Pradesh: Infrastructure, reform and energy securityUttar Pradesh has transformed from a state plagued by prolonged blackouts to one meeting record electricity demand with near round-the-cloc...
Citing village electrification, PM Modi questions those accusing him of working for richPM said those who had no time to spare for these 18,000 villages living in darkness even after 60 years of Independence are accusing him of...
Power Ministry crosses 13K village electrification milestone"Out of 18,452 villages, over 13,000 villages have been electrified as on date," Power Ministry said in a statement.
Provide power connection on EMI to APLs: Power Minister Piyush Goyal to statesBelow poverty line families are being provided free of cost electricity connections by the state governments through their power distributi...
10,079 villages electrified till date under DeenDayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna: GovernmentOut of these 28 newly electrified villages, four are in Assam, five in Chhattisgarh, three in Jharkhand, 10 in Meghalaya and 6 in Rajasthan...
Electrification of 1,450 Uttar Pradesh villages under lens, power ministry to seek CAG auditThe power ministry has asked rural electrification engineers called as GVAs to carry out cross-verification of village electrification clai...
UP discom feels the heat: Asked to explain why village has no powerThe letter also sought clarification on reports that 150 'katia' connections (illegally tapped lines) were accessing power from transformer...
Government decides to electrify 5.98 crore un-electrified households by December 2018The Centre will soon launch an extension of its existing dashboard and mobile app ‘Garv’ on rural electrification to provide real-time data...
Parliamentary panel picks holes in government's electrification driveThe panel picked holes in electrification of villages, saying that there are cases where electrification of the villages has been done only...
Electricity the main force behind Digital India, Make in India: Dinesh Arora, REC"Rural electrification has been fast tracked to an extent that even it is more than two times what was achieved in the last three years."
Lalu Prasad demands electrification of 36 riverine villages in BiharLalu Prasad demanded electrification of 36 riverine villages located on the embankment of river Ganga in Bihar's Patna and Saran districts ...
Government does its math to fast-track rural electrificationThe govt is exploring ways to fast-track rural electrification in Odisha, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Assam, which are home to ...
PM Narendra Modi for electrification of 200 villages every weekModi has asked the Power Ministry to target electrification of around 200 villages every week by holding regular follow ups with the state ...
258 village electrified last week258 villages across six states were electrified in the week to February 21 under its flagship rural electrification programe, the Deen Daya...
Work in 1/3rd of unelectrified 18,000 villages over: Piyush GoyalThe Centre has completed the electrification work in nearly one-third of 18,452 unelectrified villages, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said.
About 25% of 18,452 unelectrified villages got power since AugustAs many as 4,319 villages have been electrified so far which constitute over 23 per cent of the targetted 18,452 villages to be provided po...
Electrification works in 3,286 villages completed so farElectrification works in 3,286 villages out of 18,452 unelectrified villages in the nation have been completed so far, Parliament was infor...
Govt may miss rural electrification target due to difficult terrainsDifficult terrains, delays in nods, inhabitations in wildlife sanctuaries major impediments to power supply electricity.
- Rural electricity to speed up inclusion
The Indian Electricity Act, 2003, initially envisaged that the appropriate governments shall endeavour to supply electricity to all areas, ...