Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
What is the 5 April lights out about? In his address to the nation on Friday morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked citizens to turn the lights off in their homes for 9 minutes on Sunday (5 April) starting at 9pm.
Instead, “stand at your doors or in you balconies, and light candles or diyas, (or shine) torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes" as a show of unity in the nation’s fight against covid-19 pandemic.
While this is simple gesture for households to follow, the national electricity grid - which meets India’s power needs - has a lot of work to do maintain reliable power supply during and after this period. Why is this complicated to manage? India has a baseload power demand of roughly 160 gigawatts (GW), that is 160,000