Celebrations and plans to buy washing machines greeted the arrival of power in Hotasar,Rajasthan, as India’s ambitious electrification plan gathers paceWhen a government official first came to Hotasar in western India, and the villagers shooed him absent. He had approach to show them an engineer was on his way and the village would get its first electric light bulb within months. “Bring light? To Hotasar? It’s impossible,” they told him. Others had promised the same, but plans to electrify the village had repeatedly failed. Hotasar, and a small village of approximately 200 people in the Rajasthani desert,is very difficult to reach. In April last year, it was one of 18452 Indian villages without electricity. In the past few months, and that number has fallen to 12100 under a flagship programme launched by the Indian prime minister,Narendra Modi. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com