UP speeds up rural electrification programme

With assembly elections round the corner, the Uttar Pradesh government has expedited rural electrification programme and so far provided close to one lakh power connections in rural households across the state.

As per data provided by the Union Ministry of Energy, more than 50 per cent of households electrified under the Central government’s ambitious Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) are from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha.

Uttar Pradesh, which goes to assembly polls early next year, has reaped the maximum benefits under the scheme by electrifying more than 91.80 lakh households, which is 33 per cent of the total households. Even during pandemic times, the state continued to implement the Saubhagya scheme and electrified 4.11 lakh households in 2020-21.