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West Bengal is still in darkness

Union Power Minister Sushi Kumar Shinde said that the project Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyut Yojana (RGGVY) launched by the Power Ministry, will electrify every village by 2009-10, it will work out to a total of Rs.3500 crore; “while only one agency has been entrusted with this job in all states; but in West Bengal the scheme is entrusted to four agencies NTPC, National Hydro Electric power corporation, Damoder valley Corporation and PGCIL; he asked the agencies to help out the West Bengal Government, since nearly 80 per cent of rural West Bengal is yet to be electrified” he said. Mr. Shinde was in West Bengal with NTPC Chairman C P Jain to lay the foundation of 500 MW unit of NTPC’s super thermal power project at Farakka, about 200 kms from Kolkata.

Even after 58 years of independence a State like West Bengal is still not electrified to an extent of 80 per cent is really amazing. The Communist Party of India which has projecting itself as progressive party; which is in office for more than twenty seven years and winning elections for six consecutive terms in West Bengal since 1977 and is keeping its rural areas and its people under darkness that too in 21^st century is unimaginable! What made this party and its governance to keep the state in darkness?

The Hindu 27^th February 2006

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