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Yawning Gaps

  • Power for 1.25 lakh villages and an extra 2.3 crore households—capital subsidy component may treble.

  • Drinking water for remaining 78,000 villages—Rs 5,000 crore. External funding being explored.

  • Roads for 1,000 villages (500 in tribal areas)—Rs 18,000 crore even after the Rs 10,000 crore expected from the World Bank.

  • 60 lakh houses for the rural poor (15 lakh a year)—Rs 11,000 crore.
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