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05/03/2008
Bihar, Jharkhand have highest number of villages
without electricity
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Patna, (Bihar Times): Bihar and Jharkhand have the
highest number of villages yet to see electricity.
Ironically in the last two years not a single village
in these two states have been electrified.
Out of total 39,015 inhabited villages in Bihar only
20,620 are electrified as on December 31, 2007. Thus
18,395 villages are yet to be electrified. The scene
of neighbouring Jharkhand, from which Bihar used to
rely for power before bifurcation, is all too bad. Out
of 29,354 villages only 9,119 are electrified while
20,235 are still groping in the dark.
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 However, all the 26,613 villages of Andhra Pradesh and
158 of Delhi have been electrified. Similarly all the
villages of Haryana, Goa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and
Kerala are electrified. Thus seven out of 28 states
have complete electrification while Bihar and
Jharkhand form about 40 per cent of the area of
darkness. Even the record of Uttar Pradesh is far
better than that of Bihar and Jharkhand. Out of 97,942
villages 85,644 are electrified.
This information was given by Union Minister for
Power, Sushilkumar Shinde in the Rajya Sabha on
Tuesday.
The Central Electricity Authority report says that out
of 5,93,732 inhabited villages as per 2001 Census,
4,87,351 villages have been electrified as on December
31, 2007 in the country.
The report also said that as on December 2007 there
were 1,06,381 villages yet to be electrified.
The minister said the continuation of Rajiv Gandhi
Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) in the XIth Plan
period has been approved for attaining the goal of
providing access to electricity to all households,
electrification of about 1.15 lakh un-electrified
villages and electricity connection to 2.34 crore BPL
households by 2009. The capital subsidy of Rs. 28000
crores during the Eleventh Plan period, at this stage
has been provided.
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