Eleven districts of MP are still facing the problem of electricity

BHOPAL: About 5,000 villages in Madhya Pradesh existing without electricity while in another 3,000 odd villages, less than 10% of the households have access to power, said a recent study.

Eleven out 50 districts in the state have very poor record of providing electricity to villages.

Panna district is the worst performer and 71% of the villages here do not have power followed by Sidhi district (68.53%), revealed a study done by Madhya Pradesh Planning Commission on status of rural electrification.

Rewa, Satna, Shahdol, Shivpuri, Bhind, Guna, Vidisha, Jhabua and Raisen are the districts who possess poor records.
Whereas other districts of Bhopal, Harda, Neemuch, Indore, Shajapur, Dewas, Ujjain, Sehore, Mandsaur, Gwalior and Rajgarh have done well and electricity has reached in almost every village there.