West Bengal has achieved 99.9 per cent rural household electrification with Darjeeling district getting completely electrified, a senior official of the state Power department said on Saturday.
With two remote villages Gorkhay and Samanden on the fringes of Singalila National Park getting connected to power, another 20,000 connections have to be achieved by the state to attain 100 per cent electrification, the official said.
“We have now little more than two crore power connections in the state and we now are left with about 20,000 connections to achieve 100 per cent household electrification,” the official told PTI.
“However, 100 per cent electrification will continue to be a dynamic number as new household are being added on a daily basis,” he said.
