West Bengal to achieve 100 per cent electrification by March 2017

[itsanufy]

Actually, power sector in Bengal got a serious revival in late 80's by the Jyoti Basu government and continued during Buddhadeb's tenure. The then power minister Mrinal Bannerjee was doing excellent job in his office. A number of state of the art Chinese power plants came into service in 2007-2008, but from 2011 demands had taken a horrible downturn; And what the next power minister is doing is simply boasting the ridiculous self-assertion that its them who have made Bengal a power surplus state. Propaganda at its best.

But still the rural electrification percentage in WB as on 2011 was 54%, Same was around 37% in 2001. So after 34 years in power with good minister and good planning 36% of the end users were in dark.

Now in 5 yrs it is 97%. A rise of over 40%. You have to give her credit where it is due.

 

[scorpionx]

But still the rural electrification percentage in WB as on 2011 was 54%, Same was around 37% in 2001. So after 34 years in power with good minister and good planning 36% of the end users were in dark.

Now in 5 yrs it is 97%. A rise of over 40%. You have to give her credit where it is due.

Rural electrification was a major failure of the left government. But when the RGGVY scheme came up in 05-06, electrification projects started to pace up. Credit for the 40% rocketing mostly goes to central funding.