{"id":300521,"date":"2018-07-19T06:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300521"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T06:42:56","slug":"pm-modi-addresses-residents-of-newly-electrified-villages-via-video-conferencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-addresses-residents-of-newly-electrified-villages-via-video-conferencing\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi addresses residents of newly electrified villages via video conferencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-299861 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-581x420.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday alleged that The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government failed miserably in providing electricity across the country, when was in power at the centre from 2004 to 2014,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister was interacting through video conferencing with the villagers from different parts of India, whose houses have been electrified after his government came to power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;In 2005, the then\u00a0Congress\u00a0government promised to electrify every village by 2009. The then president of the ruling party went a step ahead and said that they will bring electricity to every home. Needless to say, none of that happened during their long tenure,&#8221; Prime Minister Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was saddened that after years of independence, still there are villages across the country that continue to live without electricity<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It has been 70 years since we attained independence, but 18,000 villages did not have electricity connections. This was quite unfortunate,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi praised NDA government for fulfilling not only its 2015 promise of providing electricity in various villages and towns but also reforming the distribution systems across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday alleged that The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government failed miserably in providing electricity across the country, when was in power at the centre from 2004 to 2014, Prime Minister was interacting through video conferencing with the villagers from different parts of India, whose houses have been electrified after his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3715,1277,3705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300522,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300521\/revisions\/300522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}