As many as 323 villages have been electrified across the country during last week under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna. Of these, 86 villages are in Odisha, 73 in Jharkhand , 61 in Uttar Pradesh, 42 in Arunachal Pradesh , 33 in Bihar, 16 in Assam, 6 in Chhattisgarh, 3 in Madhya Pradesh and 3 in Rajasthan.<br/><br/>During the current financial year, 6493 villages have been electrified so far. Of the remaining 11959 villages, 8219 villages are to be electrified through grid, 3267 villages are to be electrified through off- grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers. 473 villages are to be electrified by state governments.