New Delhi, March 30 -- Electricity requirement in Uttar Pradesh has dropped by 1.6% in the first 11 months of FY19 against the same period in the previous fiscal. This is the seventh straight month when UP's power requirement has fallen on a year-on-year basis. The dip in demand was more stark in the first two months of 2019 with electricity requirements plummetting 6.6% in January and 11.2% in February. The development comes amid UP - the largest beneficiary of the Saubhagya scheme - connecting about 75 lakh households through the programme since October 2017 according to the reports published in financialexpress.com.

The country's most populous state - where aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses of discoms are among the high...