Every household in Manipur electrified: Union minister
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 14 2023:
Union power & NRE minister RK Singh has informed the Rajya Sabha that every household in seven states including Manipur have been electrified under the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana-SAUBHAGYA scheme launched by the Government of India.
In a written reply, the Union minister said that all households were reported electrified under SAUBHAGYA scheme as on March 31, 2019 by the states except 18,734 households in Left Wing Extremists (LWE) affected areas of Chhattisgarh.
Subsequently, seven states namely Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Manipur, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh had reported that around 19.09 lakh un-electrified households were identified before March 31, 2019, which were unwilling earlier but later expressed willingness to get electricity connection.
This was also sanctioned.
All these seven states had reported 100 percent household electrification as on March 31, 2021 .
A total of 2.817 crore households were electrified since the launch of SAUBHAGYA scheme as on March 31, 2021 while 11.84 lakh households remained to be electrified as reported by states.