191 villages electrified last week under DDUGJY
01/08/2016 12:56
As many as 192 villages have been electrified across the country during the last week under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).
“192 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 25th to 31st July 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY),” the power ministry said in a release.
Out of these electrified villages, 10 villages belong to Assam, 2 in Bihar, 24 in Jharkhand, 2 in Madhya Pradesh, 123 in Meghalaya, 3 in Nagaland, 15 in Odisha, 7 in Rajasthan, 5 in Uttar Pradesh and 1 in Uttarakhand.
In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Independence Day, the government decided to electrify remaining 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1,000 days i.e. by May 1, 2018.
The project has been taken on mission mode and strategy for electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and also dividing village electrification process in 12 stage milestones with defined timelines for monitoring.
The release further said 9,326 villages have been electrified till date. Out of remaining 9126 villages, 501 villages are uninhabited.
01/08/2016 12:56
As many as 192 villages have been electrified across the country during the last week under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).
“192 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 25th to 31st July 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY),” the power ministry said in a release.
Out of these electrified villages, 10 villages belong to Assam, 2 in Bihar, 24 in Jharkhand, 2 in Madhya Pradesh, 123 in Meghalaya, 3 in Nagaland, 15 in Odisha, 7 in Rajasthan, 5 in Uttar Pradesh and 1 in Uttarakhand.
In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Independence Day, the government decided to electrify remaining 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1,000 days i.e. by May 1, 2018.
The project has been taken on mission mode and strategy for electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and also dividing village electrification process in 12 stage milestones with defined timelines for monitoring.
The release further said 9,326 villages have been electrified till date. Out of remaining 9126 villages, 501 villages are uninhabited.
