Bihar meets electrification target under Saubhagya

The Bihar government has completed 100 per cent electrification of all willing households in the state under the Saubhagya scheme, much ahead of the December 31, 2018 deadline. All 13.9 million households in rural as well as urban areas in the state have been electrified. Of these households, 3.25 million were covered under Saubhagya. The state had the highest unelectrified households next only to Uttar Pradesh at the onset of the scheme but it made rapid progress in electrification while Uttar Pradesh’s electrification rate stands at about 75 per cent at present.