Last village in India to be electrified gets power
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Every village in India now has power, Narendra Modi has announced, after the tiny village of Leisang in the far east of the country became the last to be electrified. Mr Modi, the Indian prime minister, tweeted on Sunday: “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.” Successive Indian governments have made it a priority to provide electricity connections to the most remote parts of the country. The opposition Congress party says it had achieved 97 per cent of that target by the time it was voted out of office in 2014, while Mr Modi’s government says it has electrified the remaining 18,500 villages. But the achievement does not mean everyone in India has access to reliable power. For a village to count as “electrified”, just 10 per cent of households have to have power, along with public buildings such as schools and health centres. Mr Modi has a separate target to electrify every household by April 2019, a month before he is due to face re-election.
Source: Financial Times
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