(PTI)
Power Minister R K Singh on Wednesday exuded confidence that 100 per cent household electrification under the Saubhagya scheme would be achieved by the end of 2018 as only 5 million families are left to be covered. The Union and the state power ministers in a meeting in July had decided to provide electricity connections to all families by December 2018 against the earlier target of March 2019.
Singh in an open article said that power consumer base was increasing at a rate of 100,000 per day and estimates suggested that the number of households left was less than 5 million. “At this rate, almost 50 more days required to achieve 100 per cent household electrification. If we do it faster, less days to achieve the goal,” he added. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2017 had launched the Rs 163.2-billion Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana’ – Saubhagya to achieve universal household electrification.
