The Modi government is now aiming to focus beyond electrification of villages. It has started collecting data about the electrification of individual rural households (HH). As per the information provided by the States & UTs in the GARV-App-II (as on 29.03.2017), there are about 17.88 crore rural households in the country. Out of these, about 13.18 crore (73.71 pc) rural households have been electrified and the remaining 4.70 crore (26.29 pc) rural households are yet to be electrified.
