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Electricity reaches to 253 villages under DDUGJY

| | Feb 15, 2016, at 07:01 pm
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IBNS) In its drive to provide electricity to villages, the Government of India electrified 253 villages across the country during last week, under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY), a government release said.
Out of these electrified villages, 111 villages belong to Odisha.  81 villages in Assam,   40 in Jharkhand, 13 to Rajasthan, 4 in Bihar, 3 in Madhya Pradesh  and 1 in Uttar Pradesh. 
 
The progress of ongoing electrification process can be tracked onhttp://garv.gov.in/dashboard

In view of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to nation, on Independence Day, Government of India has decided to electrify remaining 18,452 unelectrified villages within 1000 days i.e. by May 1, 2018.  
 
"The project has been taken on mission mode and 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," the release said.
#Electricity reaches to 253 villages under DDUGJY

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