Electrification of 165 out of 500 tribal villages to be electrified in the North-Eastern region under the Prime Minister’s Agenda for the North-East announced in January, 2000, has been taken up in the first phase. An amount of Rs 12.96 crore has been released to the NE States under first instalment as grant in-aid and as Central assistance from the Central Pool of Resources, the release added. Of the 165 tribal villages taken up for rural electrification in the region, 60 are in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, 20 in Assam, ten in Meghalaya, three in Mizoram, two in Nagaland and ten in Tripura, the release said. Rs 4.48 crore has been sanctioned for Arunachal Pradesh and 34 villages have been electrified up to December 1, 2002. An amount of Rs 0.68 crore has been sanctioned for Assam and 10 villages electrified. In Meghalaya, all ten villages have been electrified for which an amount of Rs 0.75 crore had been sanctioned. Two villages of Nagaland have been electrified with an amount of Rs 0.45 crore. In Mizoram, and amount of Rs 0.34 crore had been sanctioned and work in electrification of three villages was in progress up to December 1, 2002. Of the 60 villages to be electrified in Manipur, three had been completed and work in 27 villages were in progress up to December 1, 2002, with a sanction of Rs 5.64 crore. In Tripura Rs 0.72 crore had been sanctioned and electrification of six villages had been completed by December 1, 2002.

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