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Every village in India now has access to electricity, says PM Modi
All villages in India have been electrified 12 days ahead of a deadline set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government said on Sunday, which could give the ruling BJP a boost ahead of a general election in 2019.
Government data showed that all of India’s 597,464 census villages have now been electrified. When Modi took office in 2014, there were some 18,452 villages without electricity.
All villages in India have been electrified 12 days ahead of a deadline set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government said on Sunday, which could give the ruling BJP a boost ahead of a general election in 2019.
Modi said on Sunday that April 28, on the evening of which a remote village in the northeast became the last to be connected to the grid, would be remembered as a “historic day in the development journey of India”.
“Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever!” Modi wrote on Twitter, as various ministers in his government took to social media to congratulate him.
28th April 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever! I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 29, 2018
Government data showed that all of India’s 597,464 census villages have now been electrified. When Modi took office in 2014, there were some 18,452 villages without electricity.
But just because all villages are connected to the grid does not mean all Indians have access to power.
The government considers a village electrified if it has basic electrical infrastructure and 10 percent of its households and public places including schools, local administrative offices and health centres have power.
The World Bank said in a report last year that globally 1.06 billion people had no electricity, with India and Nigeria topping the list of most power-deficient countries.
