As part of the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, the BJP's rural electrification scheme, the government had also proposed to provide free electricity connections to over 43.5 million
rural households below the poverty line (BPL, with the poverty line set at Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas).
Overall, Hordaland county is considered representative of Norway with regards to gender and
rural / urban residence distribution, and the median
household income is also similar to that of the national average.37 In the period 2005 — 2010, the mean proportion of children characterised as being relative poor (see details
below) in Hordaland county was slightly lower (7.3 %) than in the country as a whole (8.9 %).