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India On The Cusp Of History: Completes 99.78 Per Cent Household Electrification, Just 4.7 Lakh Homes Left
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India has successfully managed to electrify 99.78 per cent households until 15 January as per government data.
Out of the 4.70 lakh households still to get an electricity connection, 20,320 are in Chhattisgarh, 94,555 in Meghalaya, 1.13 lakh in Rajasthan with 2.42 lakh belong to Assam.
As far as the pace of electrification goes, 23.48 lakh households were electrified in December 2018 and 6.21 lakh households got electricity in January alone. Out of the 6.41 lakh households, 1.20 lakh received an electric connection on 2 January alone.
Based on the current pace of work, it can be inferred that India may achieve complete household electrification sometime by the end of the month, provided the apparatus is available on the ground.
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