The Prime Minister’s declaration on 100% electrification of villages is based on the broad definition and when it comes to hamlets or habitations, thousands of them are yet to be electrified, still, they are in shades of darkness. In Telangana, in all 9,834 inhabited villages out of 10,434 revenue villages as per Census 2001 have been electrified, officials reported.
There are 50 hamlets in erstwhile undivided Adilabad district which are yet to receive power supply. Of these, 32 are in Kumram Bheem-Asifabad district, 14 in Adilabad and 2 each in Mancherial and Nirmal.
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The region has nearly 4,000 habitations including revenue villages and the non-electrified habitations are hamlets comprising only 10 to 15 houses. “We will complete the work taken up under Saubhagya scheme in the next 6 months or so”, assured Adilabad Superintending Engineer J.R. Chavan.
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