Central government achives electrification of all villages

The central government has completed the electrification of Leisang village in Manipur, the last unelectrified village, under the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana. With this, the government has completed the electrification of all the 597,464 census villages in the country and will now focus on electrifying the unelectrified hamlets and households by March 2019 under the Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana.