Govt on track to meet March 31 goal to provide electricity to every home

Power Minister R K Singh said in November that the government would achieve full electrification by the end of 2018, a deadline it missed

The government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it’s on track to meet its official March 31 deadline to provide electricity connections to every home, saying a Dec. 31 goal promoted publicly by the power ministry was only an “internal target.”

The ministry said in a statement Wednesday that it aimed to achieve full electrification by year-end “so that even if some states fall behind the internal target date they will still be able to complete the household electrification well before the official target date.”

Both schedules have been cited by the government on different occasions. Power Minister R.K. Singh said