The 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...

Uttar Pradesh, which hosted close to half of the targeted unelectrified households, has achieved 100% electrification, a statement issued b...

The rapid growth is generating demand for electricity, which is good news for power plants because many are running below optimum capacity.

States completing 100% household electrification by Dec 31 will receive additional grant of 15% of the project cost sanctioned under Saubha...

This is the tenth interaction in the series by the Prime Minister through video conference with the beneficiaries of various government sch...

The 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...

As far as village electrification is concerned, the task is almost complete as the number of villages remaining to be electrified will be 1...

Out 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...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September launched the Saubhagya scheme to electrify four crore un-electrified households in the country by...

India Post through its network 1.73 lakh outlets has begun collecting data on un-electrified households spread over three states of Odisha,...

Surveys in many states indicated that many people didn’t want legal electricity connections to avoid rise in expenses, a senior government ...

The government will launch a portal to enable the swap, aiming for optimum utilisation by private as well as public power companies, the of...

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

Under the rural electrification scheme, state governments and their discoms identify, plan and implement projects to electrify villages.

Over 30,000 MW of stalled power generation capacity has been revived in the last 18 months, the government said in Lok Sabha today.

Jammu and Kashmir government has demanded around Rs 1,200 crore from the Centre to provide electricity connection to nearly three lakh hous...

The Centre is committed to ensuring electricity supply to all in Odisha within 18 months where about 50 lakh households remain unelectrifie...