Question

Describe about development in the electrification process in villages after independence.

Answer 1

Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. Electricity is used not only for lighting and household purposes, but it also allows for mechanization of many farming operations, such as well-pumping, threshing, milking, and silo filling. In areas facing labor shortages, this allows for greater productivity at reduced cost. Electrification began in cities and towns and gradually extended to rural areas. An inherent challenge of extending electrical grids into the countryside is that doing so is expensive, but amortizing its capital cost well enough to sufficiently reduce the unit cost of each hook-up is harder to do in lightly populated areas (yielding higher per capita share of the expense). One famous program was the New Deal's Rural Electrification Administration in the United States, which pioneered many of the schemes still practiced in other countries.

At least a billion people worldwide still lack household electric power - a population equal to that of the entire world in the early 19th century.

As of the mid 2010s an estimated 200 to 300 million people in India (15 to 20 percent of the total population) lack electricity as well as seven out of eight rural Sub-Saharan Africans. Many more receive only intermittent and poor quality electric power.[1][2] In 2012 Some 23% of people in East Java, Indonesia, a core region, also lack electricity, as surveyed in 2013.[3]

It is estimated that the absolute number of people without power was growing until the late 1980s when rural electrification programs, particularly in East Asia, outpaced the growth of human populations.[1][4] Up from about 1.84 billion in 1970, approximately 2.01 billion (equal to the world population in 1927)[5] people in developing countries still lacked household electric power in 1990 (the year the World Wide Web was invented) [1] - about 38 percent of the world's population at that time, 51 percent of the population of so-called developing countries, and 67 percent of rural parts of the developing world.

The International Energy Agency estimates that, if current trends do not change, the number of people without electricity will rise to 1.2 billion by the year 2030. Due to high population growth, the number of people without electricity is expected to rise in Sub-Saharan Africa

Answer 2

India has taken various steps for expanding electricity in rural areas after our independence.

Explanation:

• The effort to bring power to poor and remote regions is rural electrification.
• Rural areas are facing enormous market deficiencies as domestic grids are below their electricity needs.
• As of 2017, the world's 1 billion people lack energy from homes – that is 14% of the world's population.
• Electrification usually begins in towns and villages and spreads slowly to rural areas, but in developed countries, this cycle also contributes to blocks of streets.
• It is costly to extend the national grid and nations often lack the resources to expand their existing facilities.
• The development of REA was designed to increase the rural public's supply of electrical energy and their access to electricity. The electricity facilities aim to increase the electricity access amount from three to 51% by 2030.

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