Patna: As part of Nitish Kumar government's resolve to provide free electricity connection to every household by end of this year, 38,596 villages out of a total of 39,073 villages have been electrified and work is on to accomplish the task on time.
"Only 477 villages are left and work is in full swing to electrify all the villages by end of December 2017," an official statement issued after review meeting on progress of "seven resolves" chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, said.
The review meeting to take stock of progress of schemes under "seven resolves" of good governance was attended by Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh, state police chief P K Thakur and senior officials of all the departments. The CM's initiative of seven resolves which was adopted as policy of good governance by the Grand Alliance ministry is continuing in the new JD(U), BJP coalition government.