In his Independence Day speech, the Prime Minister made the statement that “when the UPA Government came to power in 2004, we had promised that we would provide electricity to all villages.” He then went on to say: “Our next target is to provide electricity to each and every household in our country in the next five years and to also improve the supply of electricity.”
At best this is an oversight by his advisers/speech-writers and at worst a deliberate attempt to obfuscate what was promised in 2004 and the failure to deliver by a long margin.
The 2004 National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) of the UPA government categorically stated: “Household electrification will be completed in five years.” There is no mention of providing “electricity to all villages” in the 2004 NCMP.
The 2004 promise to electrify all households by 2009 has now become a target for 2017.
Sadly, there is no supporting data that makes the revised promise even remotely achievable.
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-NARENDRA PATHAI
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