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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...
100 per cent electrification = 100 per cent power politicsJust to recall, on the 15th of August 2015, PM Modi had made a promise to power up the entire country in the next 1,000 days.
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...
Power Ministry to launch GARV-II app to ensure power access to allUnder this facility, village-wise; habitation-wise base line data on household electrification for all states provided by them has been inc...
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...
96 per cent Odisha villages now have power: GovernmentOf 47,677 villages in the state as per the 2011 census, around 45,236 villages constituting around 96 per cent have got power connectivity ...
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 ...
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.
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...
Sushil Kumar Modi takes potshots at Nitish Kumar's electrification of villagesThe senior BJP leader alleged that the Chief Minister will pass the buck on bureaucracy if the works appearing impossible to start with did...
- Government should electrify villages with less than 100 population: Parliamentary committee
The government should come up with a blue print so that electrification of all villages/hamlets can be done.
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, ...