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314 villages electrified last week under DDUGJY

As many as 314 villages have been electrified across the country during the last week from February 29 to March 6, 2016 under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).

Out of these electrified villages, 93 were in Uttar Pradesh, 41 in Odisha, 40 in Assam, 40 in Chhattisgarh, 31 in Arunachal Pradesh, 30 in Jharkhand, 19 in Bihar, 16 in Madhya Pradesh and 4 in Rajasthan. 

During 2015-16, around 6,156 villages have been electrified till date. Out of the remaining 12,296 villages, 8,496 are to be electrified through the grid, 3,312 are to be electrified through off-grid where grid solutions are out of reach due to geographical barriers and 488 villages are to be electrified by the state governments.