Your electrical appliances won’t be harmed during PM Modi’s 9 pm lights out event, assures government

Dispelling doubts about the possible impact on electric appliances due to the call for lights out on April 5, 2020, by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Power Ministry said that adequate arrangements and protocols are in place to handle the variation in demand. “Some apprehensions have been expressed that this may cause instability in the grid and fluctuation in voltage which may harm the electrical appliances,” the statement from the ministry said. These apprehensions are “misplaced” as Indian electricity grid is “robust and stable,” it said.

Modi had urged 130 crore Indians on Friday to voluntarily switch off their lights for nine minutes from 9:00 PM till 9:09 PM on Sunday. “Listen carefully, on the 5thof April, at 9 PM, turn off all the lights in your homes, stand at your doors or in your balconies, and light candles or diyas, torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes,” he said in his brief address to the country, in order to “defeat the deep darkness of the crisis, by spreading the glory of light in all four directions.”