The Centre has provided electricity to more than 2.6 crore poor households across the country under the Saubhagya programme.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana — the Saubhagya scheme — launched in October, 2017 with an outlay of ₹16,320 crore, 2.628 crore households in 28 States and Union Territories were electrified up to March 31, 2019, replied the Minister of State for Power, New and Renewable Energy RK Singh, in the Lok Sabha.
This means only 18,734 households in Chhattisgarh will have to be provided electricity as per the target under the scheme.
In Uttar Pradesh, 79,80,568 households were provided electricity, between October 11, 2017 and March 31, 2019, highest among all States.
