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All Indian Villages Now Have Access To Electricity (indiatimes.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: All Indian villages now have access to electricity. Manipur's Leisang village became the last non-electrified inhabited village to join India's mainline supply network at 5.30pm on Saturday, an important milestone in the country's journey towards universal electricity access. This means that all 597,464 inhabited villages in the country now have access to power, fulfilling a promise the Prime Minister had made on August 15, 2015, when he announced that all unelectrified villages would get power over the next 1,000 days.
The last inhabited village to be powered through the off-grid system -- isolated supply networks, mostly with solar power plants -- was Pakol, also in Manipur, a small state in Eastern India. While basic infrastructure such as distribution transformer and lines need to be set up in inhabited localities, including Dalit hamlets, a village is considered electrified if 10 per cent of its households and public places such as schools, panchayat office and health centre have access to electricity.
The last inhabited village to be powered through the off-grid system -- isolated supply networks, mostly with solar power plants -- was Pakol, also in Manipur, a small state in Eastern India. While basic infrastructure such as distribution transformer and lines need to be set up in inhabited localities, including Dalit hamlets, a village is considered electrified if 10 per cent of its households and public places such as schools, panchayat office and health centre have access to electricity.
Today: electricity. Tomorrow: toilets!
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Canada cant even say that.
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This has nothing to do with the PM's promise. Electrification was proceeding for decades even before he came to power or made the announcement, in fact at a faster rate. In the 10 years before, the village electrification percentage went from 78%to 96%. Only the last 4% was completed in the past 4 years. So electrification actually slowed down after he made the announcement!
Wrong thread? I suppose this was meant in the "Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking" thread?
Actually, the fact that he posted that particular diatribe under the wrong story is pretty hilarious.
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India is definitely much better than China !
There are still some remote villages in China where electricity supply is not yet available, and yet, India has all its villages wired
Congrats for a job extremely well done !!
India is a country that developed nuclear weapons and intercontinental rockets, in that light I find it worrisome it took them so long to get basic infrastructure to their remote villages.
Yes national security is important but a happy population and good infrastructure are so too.
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This article is worded to make you think that ALL Indians in all these villages now have electricity in their homes -they don't. There are still millions of Indians without electricity in their houses.
And as somebody else said - what about toilets, which are even more important?
You forgot to mention race and IQ...
Homeschooling is the only way to go, I agree with everything you wrote.
There's no correlation, kids. Your comments will be graded on whether you actually processed that singular fact.
Which, as an overall statistics, is meaningless of course to the problem of whether some schools severely lack funding or not. Your response will be graded on whether you've ever passed Statistics 101.
Ezekiel 23:20
I see... so a school that is getting double the funding of another school per pupil but is performing poorly can argue it is under funded whilst the school that has half the funding and performing well is naturally just properly funded.
You know what, prove they're underfunded now. Cite the school district. I'll pull up what that school district gets PER PUPIL.
And then I'll cite private schools that get that much or less and kick that school's ass.
Its a sad argument.
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I don't think race is causal but rather correlates with certain other problems in that race often correlates with cultural patterns that can be damaging to children. Again to be clear... I do not in any way believe in racial IQ or race realism or any of what I believe to be crap. I think race often correlates with culture and that can have a big impact. Such as Asian tiger mommas... I don't think Asian children are smarter but if they're raised in a more academically challenging environment and have a healthy but structured upbringing that is obviously positive for a child.
As to home schooling, it isn't practical for the general population and presumes the parents know enough to teach the child. In some cases that isn't reliable.
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Yeah, I don't know how that happened. I don't remember even seeing this indian thing.
Either my butter fingers or a UI glitch or something. *shrugs*
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It was either a butterfinger click or a UI bug... none of which undermines anything I've said unless ad hominems have suddenly stopped being fallacies.
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In case you didn't know, PM Modi's clever spin is that if his government has put up even a single pole in a whole village, providing electricity to say a govt office there, or put up even several poles but no electric cables on them and so on, in theory the village is "electricity access ready". The argument here being that whenever the lines are actually connected to the power grid, the electricity will be arriving, since "the poles are already installed".
http://www.business-standard.c...
The current ruling party has apparently learned that hiring social media IT teams tha spam social media with lies and exaggerations and feel-good promises is a good way of scoring votes, instead of needing to do any actual development work.
With all the money they make from casinos they wired up all the Indian reservations with electricity! That's great. I would hope they also installed some fibre for internet access.
Now do the same thing for running water sanitation, and the rest of the world will start taking you more seriously.
Their indian? And you, who seem to be only semi-literate, dare to pontificate about civilization?
"Their indian, it's cultural."
Indeed, just as with you racists, not knowing the difference between "They're" and "Their" is cultural.
It's sad, but fortunate in some ways. These sorts rarely aspire to much beyond shitposting on internet forums.
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
1.) How is the electricity generated?
2.) How many days a year does the electricity go out (on average)?
-==- Buy a Mac and leave me alone!
Most of the comments to any India related stories are only about a handful of topics that includes:
* H1Bs and how lousy Indians are at coding
* Public defecation (even though the topic is not about that)
* Third world country
Pretty much 90% of the comments are negative. This is not really adding any value to the discussion, so I hope people will refrain from posting stories about India.
Certainly not the case for native American Indians: https://indiancountrymedianetw...
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but I doubt it is true. There are villages in many First World Countries that still don't have electricity. Even in the USA. It may even be that the villages isn't incorporated or considered a governmental unit. Getting to the last villages is always going to be a difficult problem.
If you'd been taught to "go" outdoors all your life, going into a tiny room to crap seems unnatural.
I find great enjoyment pissing outdoors, but I'm careful NOT to pee on electrical wires.
Never learned to enjoy a breeze on my a-hole. Suspect that too is a cultural difference. Or perhaps it is the difficulty in accessing toilet paper when in nature?
Maybe because those last 4% were extremely hard to get to?
I admittedly have no idea about India's infrastructure or finer geography, the locations of their villages etc., but compare it to coding: You'll crank out 95% of a program fast, going through all the easy sections like buttons doing what they say they should and so on, and then you'll spend forever on the last 5% to make sure everything works -together-.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.[1]
—Tom Cargill, Bell Labs
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Just climb that pole with your extension cord and hook yourself up.
Have gnu, will travel.
Ten percent of households electrified=village is electrified? That's not much to brag about.
Then proper human beings could live there, setup, and create a functional civil society.
AC will not be part of the future "functional civil society", since AC does not appear to match the description of "proper".
Simple answer? You're a moron. Process that. Actually think about it. Give yourself a full 10 seconds to muse that over.
Someone got triggered.
You do realize your extreme reaction to what is at worst a miss-click has betrayed a certain... lack of emotional perspective?
Work on it. Don't want people to think you're a spaz. ;)
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Just quoting you back, moron.
Ref: a village is considered electrified if 10 per cent of its households and public places such as schools, panchayat office and health centre have access to electricity Absolutely not That only means 10% of a village is electrified.. 10 is too low of a number to consider the whole village electrified.
I do not respond to trolls (AKA Anonymous Cowards)
You know what you are and what you did. ;)
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Well, true or not, the "Endless stupid zombies" ad hominem came from your OP.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Ha! You prolly got more replies by this little glitch than if it had posted correctly. Isn't the internet fun?
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Define what ad hominem means. Please consult the dictionary. Then look at what I said and relate the definition of "ad hominem" with my statement.
You will find that I leveled not one ad hominem in the entire post.
Ad hominems =/= an insult or derogatory statement. An "ad hominem" is a logical fallacy. That is, it is not about being polite or nice. Rather it is a logical error.
Calling someone a "stupid zombie" is not a logical error in and of itself.
The logical fallacy comes form saying something like "Because Bob is a mindless zombie, whatever he says is going to be stupid." THAT is an ad hominem. Because it is not logically proscriptive for a given statement to be right or wrong simply because of who they are.
The argument goes in both directions. For example if you said "Bob is a genius so whatever Bob says will be correct or genius"... that is also an ad hominem.
An ad hominem is a conflation between the argument and a given person that makes the argument where you infer that an argument is true or false on the basis of who made the argument.
You now know what an "ad hominem" is... you are welcome.
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Funny old world.
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