{"id":17975,"date":"2016-11-22T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=17975"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:28:11","slug":"free-power-connection-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/free-power-connection-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Free power connection programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which of the following state has launched &#8220;Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar&#8221; a key programme to provide free electricity connection?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Madhya Pradesh<br \/>\n(b) Jharkhand<br \/>\n(c) Bihar<br \/>\n(d) Assam<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 15 November 2016; Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launched &#8220;Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar&#8221; , a key programme to provide free electricity connection to about 50 lakh households above the poverty line.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It aims to supply power to every household in Bihar in the next two years.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Providing power connection to every household is an important component of Government \u201cseven resolves\u201d.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the programme, nearly 50 lakh households above the poverty line, but deprived of power will get electricity connection free.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The target is to link the leftover households with electricity connection in next two years (by 2018)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">An amount of Rs 1857.5 crore has been set aside by the state government for this purpose.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state is undertaking this task on its own by drawing loan from the Asian Development Bank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NitishKumar\/status\/798528562017878016?lang=hi\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/NitishKumar\/status\/798528562017878016?lang=hi<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/khabar.ndtv.com\/news\/bihar\/nitish-kumar-launches-free-power-connection-programme-1625779\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/khabar.ndtv.com\/news\/bihar\/nitish-kumar-launches-free-power-connection-programme-1625779<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/nitish-kumar-launches-free-power-connection-programme-4377163\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/nitish-kumar-launches-free-power-connection-programme-4377163\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following state has launched &#8220;Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar&#8221; a key programme to provide free electricity connection? (a) Madhya Pradesh (b) Jharkhand (c) Bihar (d) Assam Ans: (c) Related facts: On 15 November 2016; Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launched &#8220;Har Ghar Bijli Lagataar&#8221; , a key programme to provide free electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}