Four years of Modi govt: Energy access remains a challenge of the last mile

The second part of a series on govt's flagship schemes looks at energy schemes

On the back of LPG connections and promise of electrifying every village household, the NDA government is trying to make inroads into the states headed for elections. But these states pose a challenge when it comes

to execution of flagship energy schemes.

Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government had achieved 100 per cent electrification of all villages in India. The work of bringing electricity to some 18,000 villages that were yet to have access to power had begun in 2015. The target was to get them electrified within 1000 days. And Modi and his ministers