Rural Electrification

Under Saubhagya, the Centre provided 60 per cent of the project finance to states for giving connections to rural households, and the rest was borne by states

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West Bengal has achieved 99.9 per cent rural household electrification with Darjeeling district getting completely electrified, a senior official of the state Power department said on Saturday

According to the study, households tended to have more male-used appliances than neutral, and more neutral than female-used appliances

According to the union power ministry states electrified 25 million households under Saubhagya in 17 months

According to Jaideep Mukherji, CEO, Smart Power India, there has been a lot of progress in Bihar both in terms of connection and hours of electricity supply to households

The residents of these villages who were connected through a district centre thanked the PM for bringing electricity to their areas

Electricity access for all villages is an achievement. Connecting households and providing customer service are bigger challenges

The country still has 31 mn homes without power; About 90% of these have to be electrified by non-special category states

The state's capital, Bengaluru, is facing power outages for long hours with elections around the corner

Chidambaram also referred to Modi claiming credit for nearly 100 per cent electrification of villages as "another jumla"

PM Modi recently announced village electrification in India was completed. When Modi govt took office in 2014, it identified 18,452 villages to electrify under Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

He stressed on the need for developing skills for the power sector

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to consider and approve tomorrow a proposal to launch a scheme called 'Saubhagaya' for providing subsidy on equipment for energising all households in rural areas."The proposal for Saubhagaya Scheme to provide electricity to all households in rural area is listed on the agenda of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for its meeting scheduled tomorrow," a government source said.Under the scheme, the government will provide subsidy on equipment like transformers, meters and wires used to energise the households in rural areas.The government has been working hard to electrify all villages in the country and also want to achieve 24X7 Power for All by 2019.In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced to electrify the remaining 18,452 unelectrified villages in 1,000 days in his Independence Day speech. However, the Power Ministry is expected electrify all habited villages December this year.According to GARV ...

Scheme being designed to show how states are spending funds and to give details of metering, power supply and outages for households

Goyal said that most states have agreed to the proposition and the centre would look into the legalities

Electricity supply has always been a political subject. And dark villages help fuel it during elections. Promises of free power for years has led to darkness

A time-bound implementation schedule has been drawn up and divided into 12 'milestones' which are monitored at multiple levels

Power Minister Piyush Goyal says 38% of work done with power supply to 6,114 villages