Points: We owe heavily to electricity — Its gifts to urban life — Its gifts to rural life.
Electricity is the miracle that has modernized our life. It serves us at all hours. It gives us light cooks our food, cools our room in the summer and keeps it warm in the winter. In fact, modern civilization is mainly a gift of electricity. One needs only to switch it on or off; the rest is done by electricity, in the twinkling of an eye. Electricity is like Aladdin’s lamp. A hundred years ago people had to depend for light, heat or cower on candle, wood, coal and beasts of burden. Benjamin Franklin, we are sure, never dreamt that his kite-flying in a storm would lead to such a revolution one day.
No industrial development is possible without electricity. Electric razors, carpet cleaners, toasters, driers, grinders washing machines, refrigerators, elevators, escalators, electric typewriters, calculating machines, and hundreds of tools and gadgets are coming into daily use. The traffic signals, radio, television, telephone, everything owes its existence to electricity. And so also do the electric trains and tramcars.
When we talk of modernization of villages we call it ‘rural electrification’. Pump-sets in fields are now being operated by electricity. As a result, peasants are getting the benefit of irrigation. Formerly, crops would be harvested only once or at best twice a year. Now crops are being raised thrice. Electricity is giving ‘shock treatment’ to our sick villages and bringing them up. Electricity is, in fact, the soul of our civilization.
Electricity is the miracle that has modernized our life. It serves us at all hours. It gives us light cooks our food, cools our room in the summer and keeps it warm in the winter. In fact, modern civilization is mainly a gift of electricity. One needs only to switch it on or off; the rest is done by electricity, in the twinkling of an eye. Electricity is like Aladdin’s lamp. A hundred years ago people had to depend for light, heat or cower on candle, wood, coal and beasts of burden. Benjamin Franklin, we are sure, never dreamt that his kite-flying in a storm would lead to such a revolution one day.
No industrial development is possible without electricity. Electric razors, carpet cleaners, toasters, driers, grinders washing machines, refrigerators, elevators, escalators, electric typewriters, calculating machines, and hundreds of tools and gadgets are coming into daily use. The traffic signals, radio, television, telephone, everything owes its existence to electricity. And so also do the electric trains and tramcars.
When we talk of modernization of villages we call it ‘rural electrification’. Pump-sets in fields are now being operated by electricity. As a result, peasants are getting the benefit of irrigation. Formerly, crops would be harvested only once or at best twice a year. Now crops are being raised thrice. Electricity is giving ‘shock treatment’ to our sick villages and bringing them up. Electricity is, in fact, the soul of our civilization.
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