Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna 160 villages electrified in the country last week. In a tweet, Mr Goyal said, of the electrified villages, 57 fall in Chhattisgarh, 40 in Odisha, 27 in Bihar, 16 in Rajasthan, nine each in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh and one village each in the states of Tripura and Assam. He also said that electrification of 160 villages resulted in overall increase of 42 percent over the week before of ongoing electrification process under the Yojna. Mr Goyal said, the centre has decided to electrify remaining 18,452 un-electrified villages by 2018.