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Moving forward in achieving its goal of electrifying 18,452 villages within 1,000 days, the Union government has said that 398 more villages have been electrified in the period August 8-14, thus taking the total to 10,051 villages.
As many as “398 villages have been electrified across the country last week (from August 8-14, 2016) under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY),” according to the Power Ministry release.
A total of “10,051 villages have been electrified till date,” it added.
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Among the electrified villages, “two villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh, 60 to Assam, 28 to Bihar, 11 to Chhattisgarh, 91 to Jharkhand, 28 to Madhya Pradesh, 11 to Manipur, 36 to Meghalaya, 67 to Odisha, 18 to Rajasthan, 32 to Uttar Pradesh, four each to Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland and one each to Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand”.
Meanwhile, in his Independence Day speech from the rampart of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that when he took power in 2014, "more than 18,000 villages in India did not have electricity,” but they will be provided electricity.
“When we came to power, we decided they must get electricity within a thousand days. Not even half the time has passed and 10,000 villages have already got electricity,” Modi added.
Under the DDUGJY, the Union government has decided to electrify 18,452 un-electrified villages within 1,000 days by May 1, 2018.
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