CHANDOKHA SUDIYAL, India In late April Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government had achieved the laudable feat of getting electricity to every village in the country, a promise he made when he stormed to electoral victory in 2014. But a visit to a village in a rural area shows that reality is lagging behind the rhetoric.
In the village of Chandokha Sudiyal, some 170km southeast of the nation's capital, daily wage laborer Kishori Lal, who has been siphoning electricity to power a table fan and two lights in his house, is waiting for his own connection.
