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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...- Access to electricity among poorest households rises to 86%The NFHS-5 report released in March last year showed 97% of India's households have electricity - 95% of rural and 99% of urban. Bihar, Jha...
- 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...
- Rural electrification in full swing, connecting 7 lakh homes a weekThe rapid growth is generating demand for electricity, which is good news for power plants because many are running below optimum capacity.
- 15 states completely electrified: Power minister RK SinghStates completing 100% household electrification by Dec 31 will receive additional grant of 15% of the project cost sanctioned under Saubha...
- 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...
- Government to use mobile app for on-the-spot power connectionsAs far as village electrification is concerned, the task is almost complete as the number of villages remaining to be electrified will be 1...
- 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...
- Postmen to collate data on homes still without electricityIndia Post through its network 1.73 lakh outlets has begun collecting data on un-electrified households spread over three states of Odisha,...
- Power hurdle: Many villagers not keen on legal electricity connectionsSurveys in many states indicated that many people didn’t want legal electricity connections to avoid rise in expenses, a senior government ...
- State discoms may soon swap coal via online auctionThe government will launch a portal to enable the swap, aiming for optimum utilisation by private as well as public power companies, the of...
- 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...
- Nagla Fatela row exposes dark side of UP's power driveUnder the rural electrification scheme, state governments and their discoms identify, plan and implement projects to electrify villages.
- 30,000 MW of stalled power generation capacity revived: Piyush GoyalOver 30,000 MW of stalled power generation capacity has been revived in the last 18 months, the government said in Lok Sabha today.
- Nearly 3 lakh households in Jammu & Kashmir without power connectivityJammu and Kashmir government has demanded around Rs 1,200 crore from the Centre to provide electricity connection to nearly three lakh hous...
- Power to all households of Odisha in 18 months: Piyush GoyalThe Centre is committed to ensuring electricity supply to all in Odisha within 18 months where about 50 lakh households remain unelectrifie...
- RGGVY scheme launched in Tamil NaduRajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana ( RGGVY), the Centre’s scheme to provide power to un-electrified villages\hamlets was launched in ...
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