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About 337 villages have been electrified across the country under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana in the week ending March 20.
Out of these, the maximum was in Odisha (67), followed by Uttar Pradesh (66), Jharkhand (49), Assam (49), Bihar (41), Arunachal Pradesh (30), Chhattisgarh (12), Rajasthan (11) Madhya Pradesh (9) , and 1 each in Himachal Pradesh, Manipur and Jammu & Kashmir.
From April 2015 till date, about 6,816 villages have been electrified. Out of the remaining 11,636 villages, 7,976 will be electrified through the grid, 3,205 through off-grid solutions and 455 villages through the state government.
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