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About 2.86 crore households were electrified under SAUBHAGYA Scheme including additional households that were unwilling for electrification earlier but became willing later: Union Power and NRE Minister Mr. R.K. Singh

The Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (SAUBHAGYA) was launched by the Government of India in October 2017 with the aim of achieving universal household electrification by providing electricity connections to all un-electrified households in rural areas and all poor households in urban areas in the country.

As of March 31, 2019, all households were recorded by the States as electrified under the SAUBHAGYA scheme, with the exception of 18,734 households in the Chhattisgarh region, affected by left-wing extremists (LWE). Subsequently, seven States namely Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Manipur, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh had reported that around 19.09 lakh un-electrified households, identified before March 31, 2019, which were unwilling earlier but later expressed willingness to get electricity connection.

All these seven States had recorded 100% households' electrification as on March 31, 2022. Since the start of SAUBHAGYA, 2.86 crore homes have been electrified, including the additional households in two tranches that were unwilling for electrification earlier but became willing later.

While the creation of new households is a constant process and it is anticipated that the Distribution Utilities will handle their electrification, the Government of India is committed to assisting the States in electrifying all the households that already existed when SAUBHAGYA was approved.

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