April 29, 2018:
PM Modi said, it is a historic day in the development journey of India as all 5.97 Lakh Village completely Electrified.
PM Modi has anounced that all villages in India have been electrified 12 days ahead of a deadline set by his government.
Modi amounced 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”.
He said 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.
Government data shows that all of India’s 597,464 census villages have now been electrified.
When PM Modi took office in 2014, there were some 18,452 villages without electricity.
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 clarified that it considers a village electrified if it has basic electrical infrastructure and 10% of its households and public places including schools, local administrative offices and health centres have power.
Mere connection to Grid is not the parameter.
The World Bank has 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.
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