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Date: 2026-03-12 Category: LOKSABHA_QNA State: Union Government Country: India

Parliament Question: Villages without Electricity

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3302 ANSWERED ON 12.03.2026 VILLAGES WITHOUT ELECTRICITY 3302. SHRI SUNIL BOSE: SHRI SHAFI PARAMBIL: Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state: (a) the number of villages in the country which are without electricity power supply, State-wise including Karnataka especially in Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts and the reasons/hurdles thereof in the electrification of these villages; (b) the steps taken by the Government to improve electricity supply in rural areas; (c) the number of villages electrified during the last ten years, State-wise; (d) the steps being taken by the Government for electrification of villages in rural areas in the country and the role of State Governments in this regard; (e) whether any time frame has been fixed for electrification of all villages in rural areas in the country and if so, the details of ongoing rural electrification programmes with the help of the Union Government at present; and (f) the financial assistance provided to each State for the purpose during the last three years? A N S W E R THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF POWER (SHRI SHRIPAD NAIK) (a) to (f) : Electricity being a concurrent subject, supply and distribution of electricity to all consumers is within the purview of the respective State Government/ distribution utility. Government of India has been supplementing the efforts of the States in providing access to quality power to all consumers through schemes like Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) launched in 2014, Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (SAUBHAGYA) launched in October, 2017, and currently under Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS), launched in 2021. The objective of DDUGJY was to connect every inhabited un-electrified census village with electricity, and to strengthen the rural electricity distribution system. The objective of SAUBHAGYA was achieving universal household electrification by providing electricity connections to all willing un-electrified households in rural areas and all willing poor households in urban areas in the country.As reported by the States/ UTs, all the inhabited un-electrified census villages in the country (including Karnataka) were electrified by 28th April, 2018. A total of 18,374 villages were electrified under DDUGJY including 39 villages of the State of Karnataka. State wise details of villages electrified under DDUGJY are enclosed at Annexure I. Under DDUGJY and thereafter under SAUBHAGYA electrification of all willing households was completed by 31st March, 2019 as reported by the States/ UTs. A total of 2.86 crore households were electrified during SAUBHAGYA period including 3,83,798 households of the State of Karnataka. State wise details of households electrified during SAUBHAGYA are enclosed at Annexure II. Both the schemes stand closed as on 31.03.2022. Under the RDSS, based on survey by the States, on grid electrification works amounting to Rs. 6,521 Cr. have been sanctioned for 13.65 lakh households including households belonging to Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) identified under Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM-JANMAN), households belonging to Scheduled Tribes (STs) under DA-JGUA (Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan), households belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) under Pradhan Mantri Anusuchit Jaati Abhyuday Yojana (PM-AJAY) and households in remote & border areas under Vibrant Villages Program (VVP), wherever found feasible. This includes Rs 45 crore sanctioned for electrification of 6,903 households in the State of Karnataka. Out of the above, a total of 3.42 lakh households have been electrified till date. The sunset date for the scheme is 31st March, 2028. State wise details of fund released under RDSS for household works implemented under earlier schemes of DDUGJY and SAUBHAGYA in the last 3 years is placed at Annexure III. State wise details of household electrification works sanctioned under RDSS including fund outlay and released till Feb., 2026 are enclosed at Annexure IV&V. District- wise details of households sanctioned under RDSS for the state of Karnataka are at Annexure-VI. **********ANNEXURE-I ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (f) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3302 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 12.03.2026 ************* Villages electrified under DDUGJY Number of S. Name of the States villages No. electrified 1 Arunachal Pradesh 1,483 2 Assam 2,732 3 Bihar 2,906 4 Chhattisgarh 1,078 5 Himachal Pradesh 28 6 J & K 129 7 Jharkhand 2,583 8 Karnataka 39 9 Madhya Pradesh 422 10 Maharashtra 80 11 Manipur 366 12 Meghalaya 1,051 13 Mizoram 54 14 Nagaland 78 15 Odisha 3,281 16 Rajasthan 427 17 Tripura 26 18 Uttar Pradesh 1,498 19 Uttarakhand 91 20 West Bengal 22 Total 18,374 **************ANNEXURE-II ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (f) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3302 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 12.03.2026 ************* Households electrified during SAUBHAGYA No of Sl. Name of the States Households No. electrified 1 Andhra Pradesh* 1,81,930 2 Arunachal Pradesh 47,089 3 Assam 23,26,656 4 Bihar 32,59,041 5 Chhattisgarh 7,92,368 6 Gujarat* 41,317 7 Haryana 54,681 8 Himachal Pradesh 12,891 9 Jammu & Kashmir 3,77,045 10 Jharkhand 17,30,708 11 Karnataka 3,83,798 12 Ladakh 10,456 13 Madhya Pradesh 19,84,264 14 Maharashtra 15,17,922 15 Manipur 1,08,115 16 Meghalaya 2,00,240 17 Mizoram 27,970 18 Nagaland 1,39,516 19 Odisha 24,52,444 20 Puducherry* 912 21 Punjab 3,477 22 Rajasthan 21,27,728 23 Sikkim 14,900 24 Tamil Nadu* 2,170 25 Telangana 5,15,084 26 Tripura 1,39,090 27 Uttar Pradesh 91,80,571 28 Uttarakhand 2,48,751 29 West Bengal 7,32,290 Total 2,86,13,424 *Not funded under SAUBHAGYA Scheme *****************ANNEXURE-III ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (f) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3302 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 12.03.2026 ************* State wise fund released under RDSS for Electrification works sanctioned under DDUGJY and SAUBHAGYA Funds released (Rs State/ UT in crore) Andaman & Nicobar Islands 3.96 Arunachal Pradesh 76.11 Assam 981.13 Bihar 48.05 Chhattisgarh 5.13 Himachal Pradesh 12.52 Jammu & Kashmir 158.78 Jharkhand 196.69 Ladakh 8.78 Madhya Pradesh 2.74 Manipur 95.45 Meghalaya 99.06 Nagaland 69.29 Odisha 4.88 Rajasthan 157.51 Tripura 44.24 Uttar Pradesh 103.22 West Bengal 49.75 Total 2117.29 *****************ANNEXURE-IV ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (f) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3302 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 12.03.2026 ************* Household electrification status under RDSS Sanctioned Sanctioned Sl. Households Households State Outlay GBS No. Sanctioned Electrified (Rs. Crore) (Rs. Crore) A. Additional. Households 1 Andhra Pradesh 49.24 29.55 15,475 15,319 2 Arunachal Pradesh 47.11 42.40 6,506 0 3 Assam 785.55 706.99 1,27,111 16,748 4 Bihar 238.86 143.32 35,467 0 5 Chhattisgarh 166.55 99.93 34,078 9,084 6 Jammu & Kashmir 106.70 96.03 15,359 0 7 Jharkhand 25.16 15.09 4,853 804 8 Kerala 0.33 0.20 40 11 9 Madhya Pradesh 1.13 0.68 196 21 10 Manipur 214.44 193.00 36,972 0 11 Meghalaya 435.70 392.13 50,501 0 12 Mizoram 79.90 71.91 15,167 0 13 Nagaland 69.55 62.59 10,004 0 14 Rajasthan 1,526.94 916.16 3,38,702 91,534 15 Uttar Pradesh 931.04 558.62 2,51,487 1,317 Total (A) 4,678.19 3,328.60 9,41,918 134,838 B. Vibrant Village Program 1 Himachal Pradesh 6.08 5.47 0 0 2 Arunachal Pradesh 20.18 18.16 1,683 0 3 Uttarakhand 13.08 11.77 1,154 0 Total (B) 39.34 35.41 2,837 0 C PM-JANMAN C1 Under RDSS 1 Andhra Pradesh 88.71 53.23 24,967 24,925 2 Chhattisgarh 38.16 22.90 7,077 7,160 3 Jharkhand 74.13 44.48 12,442 11,504 4 Karnataka 3.76 2.26 1,615 1,546 5 Kerala 0.86 0.52 345 314 6 Madhya Pradesh 148.83 89.28 30,216 27,202 7 Maharashtra 26.61 15.97 8,556 9,216 8 Rajasthan 40.34 24.20 17,633 16,023 9 Tamil Nadu 29.89 17.93 8,603 7,053 10 Telangana 6.79 4.07 3,884 3,884 11 Tripura 61.52 55.37 11,664 11,692 12 Uttar Pradesh 1.10 0.66 316 195 13 Uttarakhand 0.60 0.54 669 669 Sub Total (C1) 521.59 331.57 1,27,987 1,21,383 C2 Under State Plan 1 Gujarat 0 0 0 6,626 2 Odisha 0 0 0 5,203 3 West Bengal 0 0 0 3,372 Sub Total (C2) 0 0 0 15,201C3 Public Places under RDSS 1 Madhya Pradesh 0 0 25 20 Sub Total (C3) 0 0 25 20 Total (C=C1+C2+C3) 521.74 331.66 1,28,012 1,36,604 D. DA-JGUA D1 Under RDSS 1 Andhra Pradesh 19.12 11.47 4,921 4,527 2 Arunachal Pradesh 8.20 7.38 1,938 1,579 3 Bihar 61.40 36.84 7,117 752 4 Chhattisgarh 218.44 131.06 39,579 15,456 5 Himachal Pradesh 0.49 0.45 93 10 6 Jammu & Kashmir 89.84 80.85 13,824 0 7 Jharkhand 92.44 55.47 19,467 0 8 Karnataka 41.00 24.60 5,288 1,429 9 Kerala 5.73 3.44 1,080 248 10 Madhya Pradesh 305.66 183.40 59,172 15,981 11 Maharashtra 23.60 14.16 6,961 5,228 12 Rajasthan 197.11 118.26 82,842 492 13 Telangana 110.73 66.44 26,525 17,465 14 Tripura 40.69 36.62 7,677 6,678 15 Uttar Pradesh 32.21 19.32 6,867 65 16 Uttarakhand 0.84 0.75 207 157 Sub Total (D1) 1,247.50 790.52 2,83,558 70,067 D2 Under State Plan 1 Odisha 0 0 0 0 Sub Total (D2) 0 0 0 0 D3 Public Places under RDSS 1 Andhra Pradesh 0.70 0.42 182 129 2 Arunachal Pradesh 0.04 0.03 9 9 3 Himachal Pradesh 0.05 0.05 7 3 4 Jharkhand 8.25 4.95 1,910 0 5 Kerala 0.15 0.09 17 0 6 Madhya Pradesh 3.32 1.99 650 100 7 Rajasthan 0.70 0.42 195 0 8 Telangana 2.90 1.74 672 0 9 Tripura 2.31 2.08 512 0 10 Uttar Pradesh 0.13 0.08 30 7 11 Uttarakhand 0.08 0.07 19 3 Sub Total (D3) 18.63 11.92 4,203 251 D4 Public Places under State Plan 1 Odisha 0 0 0 0 Sub Total (D4) 0 0 0 0 Total (D=D1+D2+D3+D4) 1,266.13 802.44 2,87,761 70,318 E. PM-AJAY 1 Andhra Pradesh 3.50 2.10 811 437 2 Jharkhand 6.141 3.684 1,782 0 3 Madhya Pradesh 0.002 0.001 6 3 4 Maharashtra 6.810 4.086 2,012 361 Total (E) 16.45 9.87 4,611 801 Grand Total (A+B+C+D+E) 6,521.85 4,507.98 13,65,139 3,42,561 *******************ANNEXURE-V ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (f) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3302 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 12.03.2026 ************* Funds released for household electrification works sanctioned under RDSS States / UTs GBS released (Rs in crore) Andhra Pradesh 43.15 Arunachal Pradesh 13.20 Assam 193.03 Bihar 53.02 Chhattisgarh 11.28 Himachal Pradesh 0.54 Jammu & Kashmir 10.21 Jharkhand 22.54 Karnataka 5.34 Kerala 1.97 Madhya Pradesh 102.43 Maharashtra 16.70 Manipur 0.00 Meghalaya 0.00 Mizoram 0.00 Nagaland 17.09 Rajasthan 11.92 Tamil Nadu 8.83 Telangana 35.65 Tripura 45.29 Uttar Pradesh 106.74 Uttarakhand 0.49 Total 699.43 ****************ANNEXURE-VI ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (f) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3302 ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 12.03.2026 ************* District-wise details of households sanctioned under RDSS for Karnataka DAJGUA Sanction Total no. of Progress DISCOM District cost (in Household (no. of HHs) Lakhs) Mysore 497 319.36 497 Chamaraj 3633.0 CESC 2510 428 nagar 7 Kodagu 675 644.48 231 PVTG Sanction Total no. of Progress(no DISCOM District cost (in Household . of HHs) Lakhs) Mysore 805 185.17 852 Chamaraj CESC 197 45.31 176 nagar Kodagu 604 138.93 509 **************

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