A total of 327 villages have been electrified across the country from 1st to 7th August 2016 under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). Out of these electrified villages, seven villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh, 12 to Assam, 10 to Bihar, four to Chhattisgarh, 68 to Jharkhand, four to Madhya Pradesh, 11 to Manipur, 136 to Meghalaya, eight to Nagaland, 24 to Odisha, six to Rajasthan, two to Tripura, 31 to Uttar Pradesh and one each to Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka
Author: admin (Infratructure Today)
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Railway stations turn to solar energy
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Coal India sells linkages
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Russia offers Indian firms stake in Yamal LNG project
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India to stare at oil deficit in 15 years
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HPCL Visakh Refinery processes 9.2 MT crude in FY16
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