NEW DELHI: India is on track to attaining common get right of entry to to electricity and blank cooking amenities by way of the early 2020s, a decade forward of different growing countries, the International Energy Agency has mentioned, indicating global recognition for the Narendra Modi government's energy programme.
"Developing countries in Asia are making significant progress. Many countries in the region are well on track to reach universal energy access by 2030, while India is on course to reach that goal by the early 2020s," the International Energy Agency has mentioned in its newest file, 'Energy Access Outlook: from Poverty to Prosperity'.
"Just look at India, which has provided electricity access to half a billion people since 2000. The government's tremendous efforts over the last several years have put it on track to achieving one of the biggest success stories ever in electrification," an IEA remark on Wednesday quoted its government director Fatih Birol as pronouncing.
According to Birol, the method of offering get right of entry to to scrub and reasonably priced energy is being speeded up by way of the "convergence of political will and cost reductions". Globally, this has introduced common energy get right of entry to by way of 2030 inside of reach.
"The cost-effective strategy for providing universal access to electricity and clean-cooking facilities in developing countries is compatible with meeting global climate goals and prevents millions of premature deaths each year. It would also benefit women the most, as it would free up billions of hours currently lost to gathering fuelwood," says the file.
In the Indian context, the file's certain effects against common energy get right of entry to are a mirrored image of the bristling tempo set by way of the Modi government to impress all villages and rural households through the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana and offering free connections to deficient households through the Subhagya scheme announced recently, besides bringing blank cooking gasoline to deficient houses through the Ujjwala scheme.
These schemes, clearly targeted at bettering the lives of India's deficient, are at the core of the Modi government's construction plank. Together, in addition they form a key part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's political outreach plan by way of lighting up houses and rid deficient girls from the scourge of smoky 'chulhas'
So a long way 14,670 villages, or 80% of the unelectrified villages, had been electrified within the two years since the electrification power used to be introduced. Only 2,791 inhabited villages, marking 15% of the objective, stay to be electrified. With the fast development in village electrification, the federal government previous this month announced the Saubhagya scheme envisaging free connections to deficient households. The Ujjwala scheme too has reached over 3 crore deficient houses because it used to be introduced in May 2016 towards a goal of 5 crore houses set for 2019.
"Developing countries in Asia are making significant progress. Many countries in the region are well on track to reach universal energy access by 2030, while India is on course to reach that goal by the early 2020s," the International Energy Agency has mentioned in its newest file, 'Energy Access Outlook: from Poverty to Prosperity'.
"Just look at India, which has provided electricity access to half a billion people since 2000. The government's tremendous efforts over the last several years have put it on track to achieving one of the biggest success stories ever in electrification," an IEA remark on Wednesday quoted its government director Fatih Birol as pronouncing.
According to Birol, the method of offering get right of entry to to scrub and reasonably priced energy is being speeded up by way of the "convergence of political will and cost reductions". Globally, this has introduced common energy get right of entry to by way of 2030 inside of reach.
"The cost-effective strategy for providing universal access to electricity and clean-cooking facilities in developing countries is compatible with meeting global climate goals and prevents millions of premature deaths each year. It would also benefit women the most, as it would free up billions of hours currently lost to gathering fuelwood," says the file.
In the Indian context, the file's certain effects against common energy get right of entry to are a mirrored image of the bristling tempo set by way of the Modi government to impress all villages and rural households through the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana and offering free connections to deficient households through the Subhagya scheme announced recently, besides bringing blank cooking gasoline to deficient houses through the Ujjwala scheme.
These schemes, clearly targeted at bettering the lives of India's deficient, are at the core of the Modi government's construction plank. Together, in addition they form a key part of the Bharatiya Janata Party's political outreach plan by way of lighting up houses and rid deficient girls from the scourge of smoky 'chulhas'
So a long way 14,670 villages, or 80% of the unelectrified villages, had been electrified within the two years since the electrification power used to be introduced. Only 2,791 inhabited villages, marking 15% of the objective, stay to be electrified. With the fast development in village electrification, the federal government previous this month announced the Saubhagya scheme envisaging free connections to deficient households. The Ujjwala scheme too has reached over 3 crore deficient houses because it used to be introduced in May 2016 towards a goal of 5 crore houses set for 2019.
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