UP dithering on 24X7 power supply document: Piyush Goyal

He claimed about 15 mn rural and 3 mn urban households in UP are deprived of power connections

Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal has charged the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh with dithering on the central plan to provide 24-hour electricity to all households.

Talking to Business Standard in Lucknow, Goyal claimed all the state governments and Union Territories had signed the 24X7 power document mooted by the Centre except for UP.

"We had proposed that the Centre and states could work together as a team to provide 24-hour power supply to all households," he said and lamented while all the state governments and Union Territories had agreed with the proposal and came on board, the UP