NEW DELHI: The government is planning to introduce a bill in the monsoon session of Parliament which proposes to make right to electricity a reality and hold the distributors accountable for failing to provide round-the-clock power under normal circumstances from April 2019.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a deadline of April 1, 2019, for ensuring that each household in the country gets 24x7 power supply, people aware of the matter said. While the government had set May 1, 2019, as the deadline for electrification of all villages, only 935 villages are left without electricity. The government is hopeful of covering them by April 15, an official said.In May 2014, four crore households were still to be electrified. Of these, 29,33,000 have been covered till date under the Saubhagya scheme that was launched on October 11, 2017. Under the new rules, a household is considered electrified only after the first electricity bill has been entered in the ledger.

Source: Economic Times February 27, 2018 00:22 UTC