HUBBALLI: Life without electricity was unimaginable to children and youngsters, and the transformation that its invention had wrought in the world could not be expressed satisfactorily in words, said Union minister for parliamentary affairs and Dharwad MP Pralhad Joshi on Saturday.
Joshi, inaugurating an event organised as part of the ‘Ujwal Bharat, Ujwal Bhavishya’ in Dharwad by the Union ministry of energy in collaboration with the district administration, the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd and other departments at the Sawai Gandharva Hall, opined that the internet had ushered in a revolution that even television had not. “In the age of internet, lying is not easy,” the Union minister said.
Joshi pointed out that the International Energy Agency estimated that electricity consumption in India would double by 2040. “While the consumption of electricity is 12,071KW per hour in the United States of America, it is 4,475KW/hour in China, while the figure is 1,171KW/hr in India,” he said.
The Dharwad MP rued that more than 18,000 villages in the country were without electricity even 75 years after Independence. “Under the Deendayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana, 18,374 villages have been supplied electricity,” he said.
