A total of 323 villages have been electrified across the country under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, in the week ending March 13.

Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, tweeted that last week’s achievement in village electrification is the highest ever for a week.

Of the 323 villages that were electrified, the maximum number were in Odisha (86), followed by Jharkhand (73), Uttar Pradesh (61), Arunachal Pradesh (42), Bihar (33), Assam (16), Chhattisgarh (6), Madhya Pradesh (3) and Rajasthan (3).

From April 2015 till date, 6,493 villages have been electrified. Of the remaining 11,959 villages, 8,219 villages will be electrified through the grid, 3,267 villages will be electrified through off-grid solutions, and 473 villages will be electrified through the state government.