New Delhi, April 30: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today criticized the NDA government for misleading the people over the electricity supply in the country. The party said the government’s definition of electrification in rural areas by merely putting up electricity poles and spreading wire is highly deceptive and distorted.
The spokesman of the party said here on Monday that NDA government’s claim of electrifying all villages in India is exaggerated in the absence of supply electricity to each and every household in the country. The spokesman said except few states, power supply in most of the areas is in bad condition. Recalling that previous UPA too had made similar tall claims about rural electrification programme in the country but it simply provided infrastructure and not the actual power supply. The NDA government has followed in the footsteps of its predecessor, the spokesman said, adding that electricity supply in rural areas is chaotic all over the country. The spokesman said in Uttar Pradesh the BJP has been making tall claims about improvement in rural area whereas the ground realities are absolutely different. The UP villages with extremely poor infrastructure are not getting supply for than eight to ten hours.
The spokesman said short supply is a major problem which the NDA government has not been able to overcome during the last four years, it has also badly affected farming activities. The spokesman said most of the state-controlled power supply organisations have been facing massive transmission losses, which is actually large scale theft in connivance with electricity employees and officers. The spokesman said in UP the “transmission loss” is about 50% along with piling up of massive pending payments. It is not that the people in rural areas do not want to pay, they are always ready to make payment but their only demand is regular supply, the spokesman said.
The spokesman said by making misleading claims the problem is not going be solved and the central and state governments would have to make sincere efforts to improve the supply situation. The spokesman said the NDA government’s claim of making India global leader without adequately empowering rural areas cannot be achieved. The spokesman said vast swath of rural areas in the country are facing massive health, electricity, education and other infrastructural problems with the government just reeling out success data on paper.
