“I have said this many times before but this time, I’ve told my officials that I will follow it very strictly myself. The conference with State ministers was meant to take forward deliberations on achieving the goal to provide 24/7 electricity to all households by 2019 instead of 2022, apart from other issues. “When we met in Vadodara last time, all States’ ministers and officials had all signed off on the deadline by when each house will get an electricity connection. Mr Goyal also said officials in his ministries were forbidden from discussing or mentioning the working of the ministries before May 27, 2014. Nobody is permitted to remind us of those times and tell me, “Earlier this is how it was done.”

Source: The Hindu May 03, 2017 15:18 UTC