Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said under Saubhagya scheme we aim to achieve hundred per cent electrification of households in India by this year.
He added electricity has reached all our rural areas.
The Prime Minister further said, “As we raise production, we also aim to reduce losses in transmission and distribution. Under our UDAY scheme, we are working towards this objective.”
He also said India’s World Bank Ease of Getting Electricity Ranking, improved from one hundred and eleven in 2014 to twenty-nine in 2018.
“LED bulbs distributed across the country under the UJALA scheme, have resulted in an annual saving of seventeen thousand crore rupees, or nearly 2.5 billion dollars,” he stated.
“Access to clean cooking fuel provides major benefits, especially to women and children at risk of exposure to smoke pollution,” he stated.
Mr Modi said LPG connections have been given to over sixty four million or 6.4 crore households in just under three years under the Ujjwala Scheme. A ‘Blue Flame Revolution’ is underway. LPG coverage has reached more than ninety percent, from fifty-five percent five years ago.
He also told the gathering of more than 7000 delegates at the Petrotech 2019 that clean transportation is getting a boost.
“We are jumping directly from BS four to BS six fuel by April 2020. This is the equivalent of EURO six standards.”
“Achievements such as hundred percent electrification, and increased LPG coverage, are possible only through people’s involvement. Energy justice can be done only when people believe in their collective power. Government is only an enabler in converting that belief into a reality,” he stated.