HIGH up in the mountains in Arunachal Pradesh, close to the border with China, villagers are experiencing for the first time in decades what it is like to have electricity in their homes at the flick of a switch.
Seventeen micro hydel projects, built on perennial streams, have been making it possible for them to have lights and watch TV and, as telecom connectivity arrives, charge their phones.
Home Minister Amit Shah in April inaugurated nine of the projects which had completed the mandatory trials and gone into commercial production with a capacity of 725 kW. But in all 17. . .