SHIMLA: Union Minister R K Singh today said power ministers of states and union territories are unanimous on achieving 100 per cent household electrification by December 2018 and all targeted 3.6-crore families will have access to electricity under the Saubhagya scheme by year-end.
The Union Power Minister also said that the meeting took stock of the progress of the Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) and found the pace of work as satisfactory.
The IPDS is for strengthening power distribution networks in the town and covers all aspects like 33 kV lines, 11 kV lines, transformers, substations and meters. The Minister said that 99 per cent of works under the IPDS have been awarded and progress has been made on them.
On household electrification target, Singh said, “When we started… Last year, the total number of houses to be electrified were 3.6 crore, out of which we have already done 78 lakh. We are confident that we would able to do the remaining by December 31, 2018. The bulk of this is in larger states like Uttar Pradesh (1.2 crore).” (AGENCIES)
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