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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.
Whether it is dirty muslims, dirty hindis, or dirty christians, none of them should be raping the children of the others.
Canada cant even say that.
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This is a map of spending per pupil by school district:
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18...
And here is SAT scores per state:
https://www.qsleap.com/sat/res...
And here is the average cost per student of PRIVATE education:
https://www.privateschoolrevie...
It is LESS than what we spend on public education. Process that. Actually think about it. Give yourself a full 10 seconds to muse that over.
What you can see here is zero correlation between spending and scores.
Now, am I saying teachers shouldn't be paid more? Nope.
Am I saying that teachers should have to pay for school supplies? Nope.
However what I am saying is "more money =/= better results for kids".
That's just an empirical fact. Look at the data and concede the reality. Done. Anyone that comes at me with that argument is saying 1+1=5. It is a confession of ignorance of the facts, stupidity interfering with an ability to understand the facts, or a lack of integrity causing someone to lie even though they know better.
Now, as to how to help kids? Well, if money isn't the issue and it empirically isn't. Then we have to look at other causes of problems.
1. Not all families are equal. Some families have drug abuse issues, poverty issues, criminal behavior issues, etc. You can't conflate kids that don't have those problems with kids that do. And throwing money at the problem without actually adjusting your teaching style to try and mitigate the problem isn't going to help.
1a. One thing you can do is provide after school programs for kids. Basically the less time the kid spends in a toxic environment and the more time they are exposed to positive role models the better. Here someone will say "then why are you against more funding." I'm not against funding if it is actually going to go to something productive. So the money would have to specifically go to after school programs and music programs and possibly some vocational training.
2. Some school districts are themselves toxic. A good indication of this is if people with money to send their kids to private school send their kids to public school anyway. If locals that have money make a POINT of not sending their kids to public school then there is an IMPRESSION right or wrong in that city that private is better. Naturally some parents with money are going to send their kids to private or public school. What I'm saying is if statistically they almost always send the kids to private. That says the parents don't have confidence in the public system. They would rather pay for the public system through their taxes, get no benefit from it, and pay more to send their kids to private school.
2a. Addressing this is where Charter Schools come in. Teacher's unions don't like them but parents and students do like them. If I have to side with the teacher's union or the kids, I'm siding with the kids. And anyone that says otherwise is either an ideologue that would sacrifice children to advance a political cause or confused.
3. We have to acknowledge that some kids have unique problems that are not common in other parts of the country. For example, some kids come from households where English is not spoken at home. This presents unique problems for those students and you have to adapt your teaching styles to take that into consideration.
3a. Something as simple as giving kids more social interaction with English speakers and possibly additional remedial help without making them feel or suggesting that they're mentally deficient.
4. We have to also acknowledge that we have some bad teachers. The vetting on teachers is often not great and getting rid of a bad teacher is legendarily difficult sometimes. Simply paying teachers more without at the same time purging bad
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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!
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 !!
Less untouchables, more room.
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?
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.
..and raep children for sport.
Please do the needful and nuke India.
Now do the same thing for running water sanitation, and the rest of the world will start taking you more seriously.
1.) How is the electricity generated?
2.) How many days a year does the electricity go out (on average)?
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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.
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.
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Modi regime fulfilled just 9% of his 2014 poll promises http://www.electionpromisestra...
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