In April 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced: “I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity.”
Under the official definition, a village counts as electrified when basic infrastructure is in place, when public places such as schools, panchayat offices and health centers have power, and when “the number of households electrified should be at least 10 per cent of the total number of households in the village.”
On October 2, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared India open defecation free, “meaning all households have access to toilets,” The Week wrote. A survey by the National Statistical Office, conducted in 2018, had found that “only 56.6 per cent of households in rural areas and 91.2 per cent in urban areas had access to toilets.”
In 2020 Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi set a cut-off of 100 percent in its board exam marks for three of its BA honors courses. It was “the first Delhi University-affiliated institution to have set a 100% cut-off since 2015.” In 2021 at least eight colleges of Delhi University set 100 percent cut-offs for some courses. The principal of Ramjas College explained: “one has to take precautions in order to avoid excessive admissions.”
Under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, banks opened 18,096,130 accounts from August 23 to 29, 2014. Guinness World Records recognized it as a world record. In March 2018 the government said that around 20 percent of Jan Dhan accounts were dormant.
When board exams were set for classes 5 and 8 in Tamil Nadu, DT Next reported that “teachers were under severe pressure to complete the full portions in the government textbooks within four months.”
In June 2018 the Chief Justice of India wrote to the high courts about the disposal of cases. He asked for a monthly count of cases filed and disposed of, and said that efforts must be made “to ensure that at least the overall disposal matches” the overall institution of cases, the number of new cases filed, the Hindustan Times reported.