Rural Electrification

Saubhagya scheme: Govt to miss 2019 target to electrify all households at current rate, could take as long as 2022

At current rates of electrification, it will take more than four years to provide power to all rural households alone under the Saubhagya scheme.

Saubhagya scheme may help BJP in 2019 polls, but is another instance of Modi govt repackaging UPA's ideas

Saubhagya will revive the UPA scheme from 2005, leaving Narendra Modi open to the charge that his government has done little beyond repackaging the previous government's schemes

Narendra Modi’s Rs 16,000 cr power play: A win-win for BJP and the poor but in the hurry, do not create Nagla Fatelas

A significant number of villages such as Nagla Fatela have been classified as electrified but power remains a distant dream for majority of the households in those villages

Government exploring ways to fast-track rural electrification

The government is exploring ways to fast-track rural electrification in Odisha, Bihar, Arunachal, Jharkhand Assam, which have most un-electrified villages.

Centre powers 7,000 villages, achieves rural electrification target

The Power Ministry on Monday said out of remaining 11,440 villages, it has achieved the target of electrifying 7,000 villages in the current fiscal.

Bond sales gain traction, jump 30% to $14.9 bn in Jan-Mar

In total the rupee-denominated bonds touched Rs 76,820 crore in the January-March quarter, up 33.3 percent compared to the same period last year when it had stood at Rs 57,630 crore.