10,079 villages electrified till date under DDUGJY: Govt

Government today said 10,079 villages have been electrified till date under DeenDayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna.

"Twenty eight villages have been electrified across the country during last week (August 15-21, 2016) under the DeenDayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna," Power Ministry said in a statement.

With the electrification of these villages, the number of electrified villages in the country has reached to 10,079.

Out of these 28 newly electrified villages, four are in Assam, five in Chhattisgarh, three in Jharkhand, 10 in Meghalaya and 6 in Rajasthan, the statement said.

"10,079 villages have been electrified till date. Out of remaining 8,373 villages, 525 villages are uninhabited. 5,069 villages are to be electrified through grid, 2,590 villages to be electrified through off-grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 189 villages are to be electrified by the state government," it said.

The project has been undertaken on mission mode and the strategy for electrification comprises squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and dividing village electrification process into 12-stage milestones with defined timeliness for monitoring.