Sentences with phrase «millions of rural households»

In China, tens of millions of rural households still burn coal directly inside their homes to cook.

Money is going towards «hyper - fast» broadband, although some may be frustrated that millions of rural households still do not have good connectivity.

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«This effort helped rescue the food security and livelihoods of more than 271,000 rural households and 1.6 million individuals in Ethiopia's Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNP regions, and strengthened seed systems to address future climate, disease, and pest crises,» said Bekele Abeyo, CIMMYT wheat scientist who led the seed relief initiative.

Only a miniscule amount of financing commitments — 1 percent, or $ 200 million a year — went to more - affordable decentralized energy solutions, such as household solar systems, which hold great promise to deliver basic electricity more quickly and more affordably to vast, hard - to - reach rural populations.

Besides, 25 % (45 million) of rural households across the country still have no electricity.

As part of the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, the BJP's rural electrification scheme, the government had also proposed to provide free electricity connections to over 43.5 million rural households below the poverty line (BPL, with the poverty line set at Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas).

Every village in India now has some form of access to electricity whether it be through an on or off - grid solution, according to prime minister Narendra Modi, however, there are still millions of households across India, both urban and rural, without access to electricity.