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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!
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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!
Actually, the fact that he posted that particular diatribe under the wrong story is pretty hilarious.
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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?
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.
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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.
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.
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1.) How is the electricity generated?
2.) How many days a year does the electricity go out (on average)?
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Certainly not the case for native American Indians: https://indiancountrymedianetw...
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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-.
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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.
So you're ready to stick up for what you think is right only when nobody disagrees with you?
I see from your posting history you're capable of much better than that.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Simple answer? You're a moron. Process that. Actually think about it. Give yourself a full 10 seconds to muse that over.
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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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
Funny old world.
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Modi regime fulfilled just 9% of his 2014 poll promises http://www.electionpromisestra...
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