Bhubaneswar: The Ministry of Power now claims that 378 ‘unelectrified villages’ in Odisha have now been electrified under the Deen Dayal Upadhay Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) after April 28 this year when the Centre claimed 100 per cent rural electrification in Odisha.
As per the claims of the government-monitored rural electrification portal “GARV” till April 28, this year the government had electrified 2,903 unelectrified villages in Odisha and claimed 100 per cent rural electrification in Odisha. But as per the government data Saturday, a total of 3,281 unelectrified villages in Odisha got electrified till April 1, 2015.
The facts revealed that after declaring 100 per cent rural electrification in Odisha, 378 more villages remained unelectrified which later got electrified either through grid or offgrid (solar systems).
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