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Every Bihar household to be lit up by end of next year: Nitish Kumar

PTI, Katihar | By
Dec 10, 2016 05:44 PM IST

Kumar has refuted the charges by stating that power situation had been continuously improving in the state with urban areas enjoying electricity on an average for 20 hours daily while rural areas have 14-15 hours of power.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that every household in the state would get electricity by the end of next year and exhorted people to start practising rational use of power to avoid fat bills.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar during his Nishchay Yatra in Katihar on Saturday.(PTI)
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar during his Nishchay Yatra in Katihar on Saturday.(PTI)

Survey work has been carried on households still not having power connection and the government would provide free electricity connection to all such households across Bihar by the end of 2017, Kumar said at the ‘Chetna Sabha’ here in course of his ‘Nishchay yatra.’

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Power was an important election issue during the 2015 Bihar polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly made references to dismal power situation in the state almost in every rally he had addressed in Bihar at that time.

Kumar has refuted the charges by stating that power situation had been continuously improving in the state with urban areas enjoying electricity on an average for 20 hours daily while rural areas have 14-15 hours of power.

Kumar also exhorted people to start practising rational use of electricity to avoid heavy power bills.

“Sometimes, out of callousness, people forget to switch off lights after use. We should use electricity only when required and ensure that lights are switched off after use to avoid fat power bills,” Kumar said.

Providing free electricity connection to every household forms a part of “seven resolves” which the grand alliance government has adopted as policy of “sushasan” (good governance) for rest of its term, he said.

Kumar had launched ‘Har ghar bijli lagataar’ programme on November 15 in Patna to achieve this target.

Launching the key programme, the CM had promised to provide free electricity connection to about 50 lakh households above the poverty line deprived of power connection so far. The objective would be met at an investment of Rs 1857.5 crore.

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