'India has been powered and empowered', says PM Modi
'India has been powered and empowered', says PM Modi
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On Sunday, PM Narendra Modi claimed to have satisfied one of the largest poll promises made by the Bharatiya Janata Party. He said that the promises were made before the 2014 general election: To deliver electricity access to every Indian village.

Leading to which PM Modi tweeted:


On Sunday PM said that Leisang village in Manipur, like the thousands of other villages across India has been powered and empowered. With this happy statement, he also included that this news will make every Indian proud and delighted.

According to the reports published in NDTV, a village is recognised as electrified if it has the basic electrical infrastructure and 10 percent of its households and public places. Which includes schools, panchayat office, and health center and also have access to electricity, quoted Firstpost.

However, here are 10 facts which put this achievement in prospect, according to ANI:

1. India has 649,867 villages.
2. When NDA took over, 18,452 villages were unconnected to any grid.
3. Later, during project work, 1,275 villages declared electrified by UPA were found to be not electrified.
4. NDA under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) scheme had a Rs 75,893 crore corpus to electrify 19,727 villages. That's about 4,930 villages per year.
5. The DDUGJY was to electrify the last villages: 3 percent. The previous governments headed by the Gandhis, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh, PV Narsimha Rao and Morarji Desai achieved 97 percent of the job. That should answer the question: What have the previous governments done for the past 60 to 70 years?
6. Putting things in perspective, the UPA under Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) electrified 108,280 villages between 2005 and 2014. That's 12,030 villages per year.
7. A village is considered electrified if just 10 percent of its households and public places have electricity.
8. To put things in perspective, though all 19,727 villages are electrified, only 8 percent have full electricity connections. That means, 92 percent of the electrified houses have no power.
9. Twenty-five percent (45 million) of rural households have no electricity. In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, less than 50 percent have electricity.
10. For the record, the last village to be electrified is Leisang village in Manipur.

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