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280 mn people don't have power connection: Goyal
280 mn people don\'t have power connection: Goyal. Around 280 million people in the country do not have basic electricity connection and the Centre is aiming at supplying power to all homes by 2019, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday.
New Delhi (Agencies): Around 280 million people in the country do not have basic electricity connection and the Centre is aiming at supplying power to all homes by 2019, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday.
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"Around 280 million people in India to this day do not have electricity connection at their homes. Till date, they are denied the basic thing like power," said the Minister for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy. He was speaking at Graduation ceremony at Indian School of Business (ISB) campus here.
"Country's problem is not about the amount of power generation or the ability to generate. We have surplus power in large parts of the country," he said, adding that "two real root causes of agony" are non-availability of fuel, coal and gas, as well as not being able to transmit power all through the country.
The Centre is looking to provide power to all homes by 2019, he said. "The mission we have set out to achieve to get power for all by 2019 not by merely slogans but by actionable agenda by true action on the ground." Goyal said his ministry is focusing on energy efficiency in a big way in a country where AT&C losses are as high as 25 per cent.
"On mathematical principals, 1.33 times of every unit of energy is saved given that India has an average 25 per cent of AT&C losses even today. So for every unit saved, I am saving 1.33 unit. In 2.5 years from now, I can bring down by energy wastage by 10 per cent and am looking at powering those 280 million homes out of this energy saved."
