Rural electrification comprises chiefly of domestic connections, street lighting in villages and pump sets electrification. Rural electrification received attention only after independence, when the State Electricity Boards (SEBs) were formed under the Electricity Supply Act, 1948. The responsibility of the SEBs apart from generation and distribution was also to extend the transmission network to rural areas. The Rural Electricity Corporation (REC) formed in 1969, was entrusted with responsibility to administer the Central Plan outlay and to provide loans to the SEBS and Rural Electric Co-operatives (RECOs) for implementing schemes of rural electrification.MORE
Rural Electricity in India
Out of a total number of
5,87,258 villages in the country as per the 1991 census, as many as
5,07,451 villages, i.e. 86.4 per cent were declared electrified by December
31, 2000. The remaining about 81,660 unelectrified villages of the country
are mostly in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Meghalaya,
Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Rajasthan, accounting for 99.14 per cent
of the total unelectrified villages in the country.
Bhartiya Scriptures
Bhartiya scriptures include the Vedas, the Upvedas, the Vedangas, the Smritis, the Darshan Shastras, the Upnishads, the Puranas, the Mahabharat, the Ramayan, the Gita, the Bhagwatam, and the writings of the Jagadgurus, acharyas and Saints.
The scriptures are produced with the Divine will for the mankind, to show them the path of God realization. They provide the guidelines for all kinds of people of the world, which, if followed, leads them towards God realization. In brief our main scriptures teach the following: Vedas tell to become a good person; Upnishads tell to love God and don’t be attached in the world because it is illusion; the Gita tells to love God selflessly and reveals the secret of the spiritual practices that only through bhakti one can realize God.
The Gita is a prime Upnishad and it is the practical guide that gives the true knowledge of God and God realization. It has eighteen chapters. Gita is the direct speech of Krishn, the supreme personality of God, Who Himself descended on the earth planet in His Divine form to show the path of God realization. It contains the essence of the Upnishads and the theme of all the Divine philosophies.MORE