Four years of Modi government — Power: Rural push ‘complete’, coal woes dent output
Last month, the government achieved its target of 100 per cent village electrification 12 days ahead of the deadline. Now, with general elections just one year ahead, it is eyeing 100 per cent household electrification by the end of 2018. The original deadline to complete household electrification was March 31, 2019.When the Narendra Modi-led government came to power in May 2014, the UPA government had electrified about 1.05 lakh villages out of 1.25 lakh villages that were unelectrified in 2005. In 2014-15, before Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) begun, only 1,405 villages were electrified. In November 2015, the Union Cabinet approved DDUGJY for rural electrification of around 18 thousand unelectrified villages. With village.....