The Ministry of Coalition on Monday announced that the country’s energy crisis was about to end in 2020-2021.

Giving the figures, the ministry said the decline stood at 0.4% in 2020-21 compared to 16.6% in 2007-08 and 10.6% in 2011-12.

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In the current year (2021-22) to October, the prevalence of electricity has been (-) 1.2% and the rise in the curve was due to the annual monsoon pressure on the power output.

This should also be fixed by the end of the year, the ministry said in a statement.

According to him, India had a strong inflation rate of 16.6% in 2007-08 and in 2011-12 it was 10.6%.

Through a variety of measures, adequate and brutal for the government, this decline is about to be eradicated, unchanged over the past three years – 0.4% in 2020-21, 0.7% in 2019-20 and 0.8% in 2018-19, the report said.

This shift from a weaker state to a more achievable state, with the exception of a slight decrease of less than 1%, has been made possible due to the government’s plans to address the crisis, it said.

These plans include the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), introduced in July, 2015 to create rural services and the Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), which was established in November 2014, to eliminate power gaps in rural areas. rural areas.

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The statement that the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) program launched in September, 2017 had a vision to bring electricity to every (desired) home. It was able to provide electrical connections to 2.8 crore families that were in the dark, it added.

Over the past seven years, the increase in the amount of electricity installed in the country has been 1,55,377 MW.