{"id":381167,"date":"2020-10-29T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381167"},"modified":"2020-10-29T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:19:37","slug":"87-households-have-access-to-grid-connected-power-some-still-dont-use-electricity-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/87-households-have-access-to-grid-connected-power-some-still-dont-use-electricity-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"87% households have access to grid-connected power; some still don&#8217;t use electricity: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of households (87 per cent) in India have access to grid-connect electricity, while the remaining 13 per cent are either using non-grid sources for power or &#8220;do not use any electricity at all&#8221;, according to a survey. The finding is part of the joint survey conducted by government think-tank NITI Aayog and the US-based philanthropic organisation Rockefeller Foundation on &#8216;Electricity Access and Benchmarking of Distribution Utilities.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall 87 per cent respondents said they have access to grid-based electricity. The remaining 13 per cent either use non-grid sources for electricity and lighting or don&#8217;t use any electricity at all,&#8221; the survey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of households (87 per cent) in India have access to grid-connect electricity, while the remaining 13 per cent are either using non-grid sources for power or &#8220;do not use any electricity at all&#8221;, according to a survey. The finding is part of the joint survey conducted by government think-tank NITI Aayog and the US-based philanthropic organisation Rockefeller Foundation on &#8216;Electricity Access and Benchmarking of Distribution Utilities.&#8217; &#8220;Overall 87 per cent respondents said they have access to grid-based electricity. The remaining 13 per cent either use non-grid sources for electricity and lighting or don&#8217;t use any electricity at all,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}