More than hundred villages have been electrified across the country during last week from 25th April to 1st May of this month under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna. <br/><br/>Center has decided to electrify 18,452 unelectrified villages by 1st May, 2018. Till date, 7,549 villages have been electrified. Out of remaining, 10,903 villages, 444 villages are uninhabited. <br/><br/>Out 104 electrified villages, 17 villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh , 17 in Assam, 16 in Jharkhand, 10 in Rajasthan, 4 in Bihar, 4 in Chhattisgarh, 16 in Odisha , 7 in Madhya Pradesh, 4 in Manipur ,7 in Uttar Pradesh and 2 in Himachal Pradesh .
News On AIR | May 3, 2016 8:31 AM
Over hundred villages electrified last week under Gram Jyoti Yojna