Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal has said that the Centre has fixed a target of electrifying 7,000 un-electrified villages by the end of next month. Addressing a Power Focus Summit in New Delhi yesterday, he said Centre has already electrified 5,542 villages out of the total 18,452 un-electrified villages so far. <br/><br/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his Independence Day speech, last year, had set a target of electrifying 18,452 villages in one thousand days, that is by May 1, 2018.<br/><br/>On Monday, government said 5,537 villages have been electrified in the current fiscal so far under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna.<br/><br/>Last month, solar power tariffs fell to an all-time low, with Finland-based energy firm Fortum Finnsurya Energy quoting Rs 4.34 a unit to bag the mandate to set up a 70 MW solar plant under NTPC's Bhadla Solar Park tender.