New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- Ministry attributes shortfall in target to error in estimation of households

The Centre's Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana - Saubhagya - is just the icing on the cake in India's overall household electrification drive, claims the Ministry of Power.

According to data compiled by the Ministry, there are 21.3 crore total households in the country. Of these, the Centre's household electrification drive, Saubhagya, has connected 2.46 crore homes, and another 1.43 lakh homes are to be connected by March-end.

The rest of the houses had already been electrified when the scheme was launched in September 2017. So effectively, there is an approximately 11-per cent increase in the total number of electrified househo...