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You may find it hard to believe but Narendra Modi led Indian govt is doing well when it comes to providing electricity.
The electricity index in India has grown and now the nation`s 85 percent population have the access to electricity, the World Bank has said.
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Between 2010 and 2016, India providing electricity to 30 million people each year, more than any other country, the World Bank said in its latest report released this week.
While challenges still remain to provide electricity to the rest of the 15 percent of the 1.25 billion population, India is all set to achieve the target of universal access to electricity before the 2030 target date, Vivien Foster, Lead Energy Economist at the World Bank here told PTI.
The report comes less than a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that all the villages in the country have been electrified.
The report said that nearly 85 percent of the country’s population has access to electricity.
“India is doing extremely well on electrification.
We are reporting India about 85 percent of the population has access to electricity,” said Foster, lead World Bank author of the latest report on Energy Progress.
However, India is not the fastest country in electrification.
Bangladesh and Kenya, for example, are faster in electrification than India.
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