"Out of 18,452 villages, over 13,000 villages have been electrified as on date," Power Ministry said in a statement.

Below poverty line families are being provided free of cost electricity connections by the state governments through their power distributi...

Out of these 28 newly electrified villages, four are in Assam, five in Chhattisgarh, three in Jharkhand, 10 in Meghalaya and 6 in Rajasthan...

The power ministry has asked rural electrification engineers called as GVAs to carry out cross-verification of village electrification clai...

The letter also sought clarification on reports that 150 'katia' connections (illegally tapped lines) were accessing power from transformer...

The Centre will soon launch an extension of its existing dashboard and mobile app ‘Garv’ on rural electrification to provide real-time data...

The panel picked holes in electrification of villages, saying that there are cases where electrification of the villages has been done only...

"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."

The govt is exploring ways to fast-track rural electrification in Odisha, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Assam, which are home to ...

The Centre has achieved its annual target of electrifying 7,000 villages in the current fiscal under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana...

Modi has asked the Power Ministry to target electrification of around 200 villages every week by holding regular follow ups with the state ...

258 villages across six states were electrified in the week to February 21 under its flagship rural electrification programe, the Deen Daya...

The Centre has completed the electrification work in nearly one-third of 18,452 unelectrified villages, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said.

As 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 out of 18,452 unelectrified villages in the nation have been completed so far, Parliament was infor...

Difficult terrains, delays in nods, inhabitations in wildlife sanctuaries major impediments to power supply electricity.

The Indian Electricity Act, 2003, initially envisaged that the appropriate governments shall endeavour to supply electricity to all areas, ...