Let’s start by looking at villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are almost 600,000 villages in India, according to the 2011 census.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government defines a village as fully electrified if 10% of its households, as well as public places such as schools and health centres, are connected to the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By this definition, all villages have now been electrified, according to official data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, much of the work had been done under the previous governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Mr Modi took office, 96% of all the villages in India were already electrified. That left about 18,000 villages to go.ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Before the BJP came to power, India had the world’s largest electricity access deficit – 270 million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That accounted for just under a third of the overall global deficit, according to the World Bank’s 2017 State of Electricity Access report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World Bank estimates that nearly 85% of the entire population now has access to power supply – that’s slightly higher than the government estimate of 82%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Number of villages electrified<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Source: Central Electricity Authority<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What about households?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The project Mr Modi launched in September 2017 aimed to provide electricity to all Indian households by December 2018, covering 40 million families, primarily targeting rural India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Virtually all Indian households have now been electrified, according to the government’s data. As of March, just 19,753 households are left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Image captionThe quality of the electricity supply is weaker in the northern and eastern states.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The current government has suggested it has been electrifying villages at a faster rate than the previous one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, using central electricity authority data, we found that under the previous Congress-led government, an average of more than 9,000 villages a year were being electrified compared with the Modi government’s average of more than 4,000 villages a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Problems with supply<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Although substantial progress has been made to electrify Indian villages – both by the current and previous administrations – the quality of the supply remains a problem, especially in rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only six out of 29 states receive a 24-hour power supply, according to a government response to a question in India’s parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just under half of villages have more than 12 hours of domestic electricity a day and a third receive between eight and 12 hours, according to government data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
States with the highest percentage of villages that receive between just one and four hours of electricity a day include Jharkhand, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
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