The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to provide round the clock electricity to rural areas, where aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses are below 15%.
Villagers and village panchayats will be asked to join hands in reducing the losses.
Energy minister Shrikant Sharma made this announcement at a meeting held at Shakti Bhawan on Monday.
He directed the officials to gear up accordingly.
Sources, however, said that presently there was hardly any village which qualified the criteria. “We are already providing uninterrupted power to cities. Now, the government wants to supply 24-hour power to villages where the AT&C losses will be less than 15%,” he said while directing officials to change the depilated overhead electricity lines of such villages on a priority basis.
