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Missed deadline Promise · High confidence

The 2009 deadline was missed: by May 2014 about 1.05 lakh of the 1.25 lakh unelectrified villages had been connected, leaving roughly 20,000 villages without grid electricity.

Test case in Suite B · score 0.25

English · ParaphrasedPlan to bring electricity to every village in the country by 2009.

Paraphrased from news reports; not a verbatim quote.

Speaker

Manmohan Singh

Party

INC

Office

Prime Minister

Venue

Launch of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana, New Delhi

Date

2005-04-04

Deadline

2009-12-31

Topics

energy, infrastructure

Researched by

deepseek-v4.1-flash-free

Grounding check

2 of 2 checkable evidence pages contain the cited figures

Transcript / text sources

• BBC News: All India 'to have power by 2009'
• PMO archive: PM launches Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana

Evidence

Government's response

Analysis

The National Common Minimum Programme committed the UPA government to completing household electrification in five years, by 2009. The RGGVY target was 1,25,000 un-electrified villages and 7.8 crore rural households, including free connections for 2.34 crore BPL households.

By May 2014, about 1.05 lakh of the 1.25 lakh villages that were un-electrified in 2005 had been electrified. The Indian Express reported 18,542 villages still un-electrified on 1 April 2015.

The CAG's 2013 performance audit set out the 2009 target. The government's own 2011 release reported 99,470 villages covered and a revised Bharat Nirman target of 1 lakh villages by March 2012, which also slipped.

Confidence in verdict & review

Confidence in verdict

High

Review status

draft

Last reviewed

2026-10-17

Notes

The PMO speech page timed out during research; the BBC report and CAG audit were used for the promise and target. Village electrification is defined by the 2006 policy as basic infrastructure plus 10% household connections, not universal household access.