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At end-April 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the electrification of all 0.64 million villages in India had been completed. It was a truly landmark achievement, not just for the government of the day, but in the history of independent India. In 1951, only 3,000-odd villages had electricity. A dream that began over 70 years ago finally got realised.
Till the early 1960s, village electrification remained below 5 per cent, but it picked up dramatically after the green revolution. By 1990, on the eve of reforms, around 80 per cent of villages had been electrified. A renewed push for
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