This refers to “Powering villages: One milestone crossed” (April 30). With Manipur’s Leisang village being the last village to get electrified, we have covered all 597,464 villages where power has reached. On August 15, 2015, while addressing the nation Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to provide electricity to all villages within 1,000 days and he has achieved the milestone well ahead of the deadline.
Though we need to celebrate this day, we should not rest until the day all households get electricity. Because technically, even if 10 per cent households and public places have access to power, a village is considered
