Jammu and Kashmir have achieved another milestone under Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana ‘Saubhagya’, with the Union Territory accomplishing the 100 per cent target of rural electrification.
The J&K administration has proactively worked to ensure electrification to every village, which is visible from the fact that almost 3,57,405 households have been electrified throughout the UT. J&K has also received a reward of Rs100 crore from the Government of India for achieving the target of 100% electrification ahead of the timeline.
Jammu and Kashmir are faced with many natural barriers like mountainous terrains and tough topography of the region thus, providing energy access in these hard locations was a distant dream just a couple of years ago.
For the first time, after 73 years of independence village, the Saddal of Udhampur district and Ganouri-Tanta village of Doda district saw the light of an electric bulb ending decades of darkness from the lives of villagers.
