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Modi claims all Indian villages have electricity but India Today report says otherwise -Anindya Banerjee

-India Today

The government of India claimed that all villages in the country have been electrified.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Modi tweeted, "28th April 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever! I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity."

The Prime Minister specifically mentioned Leisang, a village from Manipur that too has now been electrified. He congratulated the people who made it possible. Minister of State (independent charge) for Power RK Singh while speaking to India Today boasted, "This was an uphill task. It has been achieved well within the time frame given, with 12 days to go."

Other Ministers too took to Twitter to congratulate the government. And why not? After all, it's not an easy feat. But has India indeed achieved 100 per cent electrification? India Today sent a volley of reporters across different parts of India and the findings are shocking to say the least.

VILLAGE ALIRAJPUR, MADHYA PRADESH

Regardless of the tall claims by the government of bringing electricity to more than 18,000 villages that were submerged in darkness, the reality of Alirajpur creates a hole in that theory.

On the banks of River Narmada, there are as much as five villages that are Dalit dominated. They don't know what electricity is all about. Alirajpur, where India Today correspondent visited is one among the five.

In fact, there's only one village out of the five where only electric poles have reached. Mukesh, a young villager, when asked about the status of electricity in his village replied, "We have five villages here including Jhandana, Amba, and Chameli. We don't have electricity here. We have tried to draw the attention of the government in this regard but in vain."

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