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Affordable electricity for all in five years:
PM
Tuesday October 09, 2012 12:51:06 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Affordable
access to energy is one of the main challenges which the world
faces today, and India will ensure electricity to households in
the next five years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Tuesday.
"Our goal is to provide electricity to all 600,000 villages of
India. More than 100,000 villages were provided connections in
recent years. Now, only a few thousand households remain
un-electrified," the prime minister said.
"Our aim is to provide 24/7 affordable electricity to all
households in the next five years," the prime minister said,
inaugurating an international seminar on energy access
co-organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Globally, he said, with 1.3 billion people had no access to
electricity.
The link between energy access to the UN Millenium Development
Goals (MDGs) were well documented, Singh said, where minimum well
being is defined as requiring access to affordable energy.
Prime Minister told the international audience that lack of energy
in India bore most heavily on rural women, where 80 percent of
household use material like firewood, dung cakes and agricultural
waste for cooking in "poorly ventilated kitchens".
While urban homes in India mostly use cooking gas (LPG), only 10
percent of rural homes use LPG.
The Indian government aims to light 20 million rural household by
2022 and in this context its Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar
Mission is projected to install 20 gigawatt (GW) of grid solar
power by the same year.
Renewable energy sources now contribute 12 percent of total
generation capacity in India and the prime minister said that the
aim was have about 55 GW of renewable power by 2017.
He said that both governments and industry need to engage in
international cooperation on a large scale in the area of energy
access.
Prime Minister concluded his address saying the goal of affordable
energy to the poor would test global creativity and
resourcefulness, and while India was fully conscious of its
responsibilities in this, "South -South cooperation is vital to
achieving universal access to energy."
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