Saubhagya

Bamboo sticks for electricity poles: How one UP village is staying 'electrified'

Varanasi's Mokulpur village gets its electricity from a criss-cross of high voltage wires delicately balanced on flimsy bamboo sticks thrust into the ground.

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

With Rs 16,320cr-Saubhagya scheme, Narendra Modi's pro-poor move electrified BJP's chances at polls

Keeping with traditions of the BJP's National Executive meetings, proceedings were not telecast live. An astute politician like Modi wouldn't like to announce populist, big money schemes when they aren't being publicised or broadcast live