Villages Electrified

Two remote villages along the Line of Control on the Keran Sector in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday were electrified for the first time in 75 years of independence.

As many as 19 villages in Siachen have been electrified with supply from the Chamshen micro-hydel project (MHP), a development that will help Ladakh inch closer towards achieving the carbon-neutrality target, officials said on Friday.

Sandwiched between two major high altitude passes of the Union Territory of Ladakh, Photoksar village in Leh district got electricity for the first time, triggering lifetime joy and happiness among its residents.

Many remote villages in the Kellar area of South Kashmir's Shopian district received electricity connection after almost seventy years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is nearing his deadline to electrify every Indian home.

Even as the Central government has said all villages in the country have been electrified, there is one village (could be more) in this Uttar Pradesh district that is still waiting for power lines.

Some 80 people at a village in Manipur have finally got power connection in their homes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed that Leisang village, 100 kilometres from Manipur's capital Imphal, was the last village in the country to get electricity.

For the past few months, the villagers of Leisang watched little dots of light appear on their mountain at night and wondered when it would be their turn to finally switch from kerosene lamps to electric lightbulbs.

Facing criticism and questions about the government's claim that all its villages had been electrified 12 days ahead of a deadline set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government on Monday issued a clarification.

Rajiv J Shah, the Indian-American president of the Rockefeller Foundation, will visit India from Monday as part of the US-based philanthropic organisation's efforts to help the government electrify villages across the country.

All households in the country will be electrified before August 15, 2022 and all villages before May next year, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Nearly 100 homes in Uttar Pradesh's Sarvantara village have been electrified, thanks to an initiative by a student from the UK's prestigious Imperial College.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address to the nation on August 15, 2015, pledged to electrify all 18,452 un-electrified villages within 1,000 days.

By Mukta Patil/ IndiaSpend.org As many as 73 per cent of the 18,452 villages that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government identified for electrification in 2015 now have power supply, but only eight per cent of these had all their households electrified, according to the government’s own data. As of May 25, 13,523 villages have been electrifi...

The government has managed to cross another milestone by electrifying over 13,000 villages so far out of the 18,452 villages that did not have electricity. "The Ministry of Power has achieved a remarkable milestone of electrifying more than 13,000 villages out of the 18,452 unelectrified villages," the Rural Electrification Corporation said in a st...

Two remote villages along the Line of Control on the Keran Sector in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday were electrified for the first time in 75 years of independence.

As many as 19 villages in Siachen have been electrified with supply from the Chamshen micro-hydel project (MHP), a development that will help Ladakh inch closer towards achieving the carbon-neutrality target, officials said on Friday.

Sandwiched between two major high altitude passes of the Union Territory of Ladakh, Photoksar village in Leh district got electricity for the first time, triggering lifetime joy and happiness among its residents.

Many remote villages in the Kellar area of South Kashmir's Shopian district received electricity connection after almost seventy years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is nearing his deadline to electrify every Indian home.

Even as the Central government has said all villages in the country have been electrified, there is one village (could be more) in this Uttar Pradesh district that is still waiting for power lines.

Some 80 people at a village in Manipur have finally got power connection in their homes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had claimed that Leisang village, 100 kilometres from Manipur's capital Imphal, was the last village in the country to get electricity.

For the past few months, the villagers of Leisang watched little dots of light appear on their mountain at night and wondered when it would be their turn to finally switch from kerosene lamps to electric lightbulbs.

Facing criticism and questions about the government's claim that all its villages had been electrified 12 days ahead of a deadline set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government on Monday issued a clarification.

Rajiv J Shah, the Indian-American president of the Rockefeller Foundation, will visit India from Monday as part of the US-based philanthropic organisation's efforts to help the government electrify villages across the country.

All households in the country will be electrified before August 15, 2022 and all villages before May next year, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Nearly 100 homes in Uttar Pradesh's Sarvantara village have been electrified, thanks to an initiative by a student from the UK's prestigious Imperial College.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address to the nation on August 15, 2015, pledged to electrify all 18,452 un-electrified villages within 1,000 days.

By Mukta Patil/ IndiaSpend.org As many as 73 per cent of the 18,452 villages that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government identified for electrification in 2015 now have power supply, but only eight per cent of these had all their households electrified, according to the government’s own data. As of May 25, 13,523 villages have been electrifi...

The government has managed to cross another milestone by electrifying over 13,000 villages so far out of the 18,452 villages that did not have electricity. "The Ministry of Power has achieved a remarkable milestone of electrifying more than 13,000 villages out of the 18,452 unelectrified villages," the Rural Electrification Corporation said in a st...