Solapur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday that the government was planning to provide each village in India with 24-hour electricity through a national network of roads, power transmission, power and water grids.
“Electricity is produced and supplied, but the task of saving it is also important. Saving electricity is equal to service to the nation and the youth must take lead in it,” Modi said while dedicating the 765 KV Solapur-Raichur transmission lines and the four-laned Pune-Solapur section of national highway-9 here.
He called upon the youth to help control the monthly electricity consumption bills by discussing with their families ways and means to reduce power consumption.
He said the Centre recently granted permission to increase the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river which would help Maharashtra get Rs4bn worth of power for free from there annually. Modi also laid the foundation stone for four-laning a 100km-long stretch of the national highway-9 traversing through the Maharashtra-Karnataka border.
