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>>I agree that power shortage is real, but what PM Modi is trying to achieve is spreading electricity to all parts of India.

How do you spread non-existent electricity uniformly to all parts of India. Last time I checked 0/anything is 0. Unless you are saying the prime minister has found a way to defeat laws of mathematics or can magically pull out energy out of thin air.

Frankly speaking I wouldn't be surprised if you believe in this too. Given how much this government is about Marketing.

>>so the scheme is about giving them an electricity connection.

The scheme is nothing. They announce these schemes every few years and then junk them, because of the infeasibility of executing projects of this scale.

>>The problem in India is not power supply, its the transmission.

Its more on the generation part. Rolling power cuts are common during summer even in cities.




> Its more on the generation part. Rolling power cuts are common during summer even in cities.

I don't know what part of the infrastructure is to blame in India, but rolling power cuts can be caused by all parts, not just a lack on the generator side.

Without a sufficient transmission infrastructure, it doesn't matter if the generators even provides 100% of the required energy, some of it will go to waste (or at best: they run at fractional load) and you will still see blackouts simply because the generated energy isn't ending up where it's needed.




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