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Title: 96% households get electricity connections
Source:The Economic Times
Date:1 January 2019

The government has connected about 96% of households across the country with electricity supply, and hopes to take power lines to the rest by January 26. The government had initially targeted March 31 as the deadline for taking electricity lines to all households in the country that seek a connection. It later said the target would be met three months earlier, by December 31. The official website that monitors progress in providing electricity, the Saubhagya dashboard, showed that government has electrified 95.72% households, while 4.28% or 10,68,160 were left to be energised in Rajasthan, Karnataka, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.




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