Electricity Sector in India - Rural Electrification

Rural Electrification

India's Ministry of Power launched Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana as one of its flagship programme in March 2005 with the objective of electrifying over one lakh (100,000) un-electrified villages and to provide free electricity connections to 2.34 crore (23.4 million) rural households. This free electricity program promises energy access to India's rural areas, but is in part creating problems for India's electricity sector.

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