Ahead of the Union Budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a big push to the government's power drive and has asked the Power Ministry to target electrification of around 200 villages every week. Stressing the need to properly highlight electrification of villages, 'Prime Minister has said that the Power Ministry must strive to complete electrification of 200 villages every week by following up with state implementing agencies regularly, adding that progress with regard to electrification of villages should be properly highlighted.
Modi further said that for electrification of the balance villages, the Power Ministry must follow up with state implementing agencies to ensure timely sanctions, procurement, installations and commissioning activities. Prime Minister had earlier said that already 5279 villages have been electrified, with excellent work done by the Power Ministry in Bihar, UP, Odisha, Assam and Jharkhand.
The power ministry in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Independence Day last year, had decided to electrify 18,452 villages within 1,000 days i.e. by May 1, 2018. The strategy for electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and also dividing village electrification process in 12 Stage milestones with defined timelines for monitoring. So far, over 5,000 villages have been electrified under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY) and Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal had said that the Centre has fixed a target of electrifying 7,000 villages by March-end.
Piyush Goyal further said that the village electrification target for 2015-16 was 2,800 villages, which I set to 5,800. Now my officials told me that they would be able to electrify 7,000 villages by March end.
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