A total of 337 villages have been electrified across the country under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, in the week ending March 20.
Odisha topped the list (67) followed by Uttar Pradesh (66), Jharkhand (49), Assam (49), Bihar (41), Arunachal Pradesh (30), Chhattisgarh (12), Rajasthan (11) Madhya Pradesh (9) , and one each in Himachal Pradesh, Manipur and Jammu & Kashmir.
From April 2015 till date, a total of 6,816 villages have been electrified. Out of the remaining 11,636 villages, 7,976 villages will be electrified through the grid, 3,205 villages will be electrified through off-grid solutions and 455 villages will be electrified through the state governments.
On Wednesday, the Ministry for Power said that the target of electrifying 7,000 villages in 2015-16 was achieved on March 23. Till Wednesday, 7,008 villages have been electrified in 2015-16.