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Overview

Data from the Ministry of Power shows that all villages of Uttar Pradesh (except two) are electrified, but around 50 per cent of rural households in the state are still unelectrified. The recent transition from village electrification targets to household electrification, reinforced by the Saubhagya scheme, is a necessary one given that the end-user of the electricity is the household. However, that may not be enough, as merely being connected to the grid does not guarantee access to electricity.

This policy brief presents findings and recommendations, based on the ‘Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States’ (ACCESS) 2015, for improving the household electrification rate and improving the satisfaction derived from electricity for households in Uttar Pradesh.

Seventy-two per cent of households in Uttar Pradesh use kerosene for their primary lighting needs