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Nifty Pharma, 4 others hit 52-week high since Iran war while Nifty fell 7%. Will the form continue?Despite a challenging market backdrop fueled by geopolitical tensions and foreign fund outflows, five Indian sectors—Pharma, Energy, Defenc...
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India's electrification schemes 'Saubhagya and DDUGJY' appreciated by IEAIndia's rural electrification initiatives, including Saubhagya and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, have successfully connected mill...
All identified 2.5 cr unelectrifed households to be energised by March: FM Piyush Goyal in Budget 2019As many as 28,594 households including 8,460 in Rajasthan and 20,134 in Chhattisgarh are yet to be electrified.
UP Gets Rs 1,500 crore grant for meeting deadline on 100% electrificationThe achievement came as a surprise to many as at the beginning of December, the state had faced a daunting task of energizing 55 lakh house...
96% households get electricity connectionsUttar Pradesh, which hosted close to half of the targeted unelectrified households, has achieved 100% electrification, a statement issued b...
Power-for-all target shrinks in India as Narendra Modi's deadline nearsThe target has been narrowed after on-the-ground surveys revealed large numbers of families that had left their villages and migrated to ur...
PM slams previous UPA regime for shoddy work on electrificationThis is the tenth interaction in the series by the Prime Minister through video conference with the beneficiaries of various government sch...
Power Ministry mulls Rs 50 crore reward for discoms under SaubhagyaThe 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...
Electrifying villages: UP, Bihar to be big test for Saubhagya schemeSharma said while 6.5 lakh electricity connections had been provided in the past 14 years in UP, the BJP govt led by Yogi Adityanath had gi...
Every single village now has access to electricity: Narendra ModiGovernment data showed that all of India's 597,464 census villages have now been electrified. When Modi took office in 2014, there were som...
Uttar Pradesh plans light for all in one year to power 2019 pollsOut 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...
An all too familiar hurdle could derail Modi's ambitious $2.5-billion power planYears of selling electricity below cost has eroded discoms’ ability to invest in infrastructure, buy enough power from generators and repay...
PM Modi invokes Edison to highlight Rs 16,000 crore Saubhagya scheme benefitsUnder Saubhagya, the government plans to ensure electrification of all households with the central government providing a gross budgetary s...
Electricity for all by December 2018, all villages to be electrified this year: Power ministerGovernment had set the deadline for electrifying all villages by May 1, 2018. Similarly, it was aiming to provide 24X7 power to all by Marc...
All households to be electrified before 2022: Piyush Goyal"Accumulated loss and debt kept on increasing due to several reasons which includes limitations of the scheme, limited participation of sta...
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...
12 villages in Bihar got electricity last week: Piyush Goyal"We electrified 12 villages in Bihar last week. After 68 years, they finally have power," Goyal said in a tweet.
- CAG detects 'deficiencies' in rural electrification programme
Despite the call to electrify all households, Meghalaya government will be unable to do it by this year, CAG of India said.
- Electricity for all by 2012: Power Minister
Government on Sunday said 53,000 villages in the country have been electrified and promised 'electricity for all' by the year 2012.