"Out of 18,452 villages, over 13,000 villages have been electrified as on date," Power Ministry said in a statement.
Earlier in 2015, Modi had announced in his independence day speech that all unelectrified villages (18,452) will be electrified in next 1,000 days i.E. 1 May, 2018.
"A moment of pride as we have electrified over 13,000 out of 18,452 villages. The remaining villages will be electrified by May 2018," Power Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted today.
As per the portal, the rural electrification work is in progress on 4,589 villages and there are 835 unelectrified villages which are uninhabited.