Government today said 238 villages were electrified across the country during last week under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram JyotiYojna (DDUGJY).
"238 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 25th to 31st January 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram JyotiYojna (DDUGJY)," an official statement said.
Out of these electrified villages, 2 villages belong to Assam, 3 to Bihar, 40 to Jharkhand, 34 to Chhattisgarh, 143 in Odisha, 7 in Rajasthan, 3 in Tripura, 5 in Uttar Pradesh and one village in Madhya Pradesh, respectively.
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In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation on Independence Day, the government has decided to electrify remaining 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1,000 days i.E. By 1st May, 2018, it added.
The project has been taken on mission mode and strategy for electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and dividing village electrification process in 12 stage milestones with defined timelines for monitoring.
During 2015-16, 4,781 villages have been electrified till date, the statement said.
Out of remaining 13,671 villages, 10,690 villages are to be electrified through grid, 1,998 villages through off-grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 983 villages are to be electrified by state government, it added.
"Total 1,654 villages were electrified during April 2015 to August 14, 2015 and after taking initiative by Government of India for taking it on mission mode, 3,127 additional villages have been electrified from 15th August 2015 to 31st January," the statement said.
