Indian village gets electricity 63 years after independence

Nearly 63 years after Independence, a village situated on a hillock near Indore, got its first ever electricity connection. Koparwel, a tiny village with 20 households, broke into jubilation with the lighting of a bulb in one of its huts this Friday. Ambaram is the first villager to get the electricity connection.

No sooner was his house brightened by a CFL bulb, villagers worshipped the instrument, distributed "prasad" and burst firecrackers. Read More..............MP village gets electricity 63 years after independence

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ELECTRICITY MAN - High Voltage Human Conductor From India

Can you believe that this person can pass High Voltage Electricity through his body? Yes, his body is such a conductor of electricity that bulbs light through his body, household kitchen appliances run through his body...it's really amazing & unbelievable.....just see below video

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Celebrating 25 years of darkness

Come Sunday and villagers of Kanugaon in eastern Assam’s Golaghat district will mark a special event — a silver jubilee of living in darkness.

The village has had no power despite having 22 electric poles since 1985.

Special invitations for the event have been sent to officials of the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) in the district headquarters at Golaghat, 12 km southeast of the village, for denying them electricity for so many years. Read More................Celebrating 25 years of darkness

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No electricity, No marriage

LUCKNOW (Uttar Pradesh): Most of the men at Anmolpur village near here are unmarried no, not by choice or for any religious reason but due to the lack of power supply.

No one wants to marry off their daughters to youths from the village, about 20 kms from the Uttar Pradesh capital, as it remains non-electrified even after 60 years of independence, villagers say. Read more............................No electricity, no marriage for men in UP village

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