In spite of the country’s installed power generation capacity (357 GW) being almost twice the peak demand levels (183 GW), daily average electricity supply duration in rural areas are below 20 hours in as many as 10 states. Among major states, Haryana villages receive 15.64 hours of daily average power supply, while rural Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka get electricity for 17.71 hours, 17.79 hours and 18.74 hours, respectively.
Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal claims to supply round the clock power to their villages, according to a response by power minister RK Singh to a question tabled in Parliament on Thursday. Rural Jammu and Kashmir gets 14.25 hours of electricity— the lowest in the country.
