A woman stands near her shack in Maharashtra's Bhamana village, where not a single home as access to electricity. More than 50 million homes are without power in India.
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Living in the Dark: 240 Million Indians Have No Electricity
50 million rural homes without power despite idle generation.
Screams alerted Dadasaheb Vidhate to the fire trapping three of his children in the family’s thatched-roof hut in rural India.
“Neighbors rushed to help douse the fire, but we couldn’t save anyone,” Vidhate, 45, said of the blaze four years ago, which he blames on an overturned kerosene lamp. “My children were burned alive before my eyes.”