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

Under this facility, village-wise; habitation-wise base line data on household electrification for all states provided by them has been inc...

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...

Of 47,677 villages in the state as per the 2011 census, around 45,236 villages constituting around 96 per cent have got power connectivity ...

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."

Lalu Prasad demanded electrification of 36 riverine villages located on the embankment of river Ganga in Bihar's Patna and Saran districts ...

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

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

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

The senior BJP leader alleged that the Chief Minister will pass the buck on bureaucracy if the works appearing impossible to start with did...

The government should come up with a blue print so that electrification of all villages/hamlets can be done.

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, ...