A performance audit of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) and Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (SAUBHAGYA) has found significant gaps in the Modi government’s claim of 100% rural electrification. The report has found that the estimation of households for electrification shown on the scheme dashboard was reduced to 248.48 lakh from the 300 lakh households recorded in the scheme guidelines and, accordingly, the government declared it had achieved 100% of the target by March 2019.
The CAG report says that the Union Ministry of Power (MoP) told the auditor that new unelectrified households, coming up on a day-to-day basis in states, were not covered under SAUBHAGYA. The “electrification of households was a dynamic process”, and the scheme only was a particular period. Hence, its objectives had been achieved, the government told auditors. CAG also found duplicate claims and that the work of feeder separation – so that agricultural electricity feeders are physically separated from non-agricultural feeders – was not fully covered under DDUGJY.
13/01/2026