OREANDA-NEWS. 398 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 8thto 14th August 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). Out of these electrified villages, 2 villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh, 60 to Assam, 28to Bihar, 11 to Chhattisgarh, 91 to Jharkhand, 28 to Madhya Pradesh, 11 to Manipur, 36to Meghalaya, 67 to Odisha , 18to Rajasthan, 32 to Uttar Pradesh and4 each to Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram & Nagaland and 1 each to Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand.

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Total 1654 villages were electrified during April 2015 to 14thAug 2015 and after taking initiative by Government of India for taking it on mission mode, 8,397 additional villages have been electrified from 15thAugust 2015 to 14th August, 2016.In order to expedite the progress further, a close monitoring is being done through Gram Vidyut Abhiyanta (GVA) and various actions are also being taken on regular basis like reviewing the progress on monthly basis during the RPM meeting, sharing of list of villages which are at the stage of under energization with the state DISCOM, identifying the villages where milestone progress are delayed.