A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that all inhabited Indian villages were electrified after the last village in Manipur was networked with the grid on Sunday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi described the claim as “one more lie”.
Congress party spokesperson Pawan Khera stated that between 2005 and 2014, more than 1,08,000 villages were electrified and only 18,452 villages remained to be electrified. While the number of villages electrified every year under the UPA regime worked out to 12,030, the Congress claimed the NDA track record is under 5,000 villages every year.
“If you look from 1947 when only 1500 out of six lakh villages were electrified to how far we have come…during the UPA’s 2005-2014 period, over one lakh villages have been electrified. Just look at our average and the average of the Modi government in the past four years,” said Mr. Khera.
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In an explanatory note on their website, the Congress said the definition of an electrified village requires only 10% of the households to have connections and power supply to common properties like schools, dispensary, among others.
It said nearly three crore households were without electricity and in BJP-ruled States of Assam, U.P., and Jharkhand, less than 60% of the households had electricity.
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