Indian media have also highlighted cases of villages supposedly electrified but where power appears to be non-existent, intermittent or available only to a few. The prime minister, Narendra Modi, tweeted at the weekend that Saturday would be “remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India”. “I have shifted my brother and children from this village so they can study,” the farmer, 26, said. Modi promised in his independence day speech in 2015 that every Indian village would be electrified within 1,000 days. Saturday, when Leisang was connected to the grid, was 988 days since that promise.

Source: The Guardian April 30, 2018 14:46 UTC