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India shines brighter on NASA map, China feels slighted

BY ECONOMICTIMES.COM | UPDATED: JUL 21, 2017, 08.00 PM IST Post a Comment

NEW DELHI: China's growing unease with India reached an absurd level when it tied itself
in knots trying to prove that India looking brighter than China does not mean it is more
electrified.

An indicator of electrification, a map from NASA's Earths City Lights project shows India
shining brighter than China at night.

However, Chinas state-sponsored People's Daily Online quibbles that it's China that
should look brighter because it's more electrified than India.

In a report titled, ' India looks brighter than China on a map, but really its not ', People's An indicator of electrification, a map from NASA's
Daily Online offers reasons given by the State Grid Corporation of China for what it has Earths City Lights project shows India shining
brighter than China at night.
obviously taken as a big slight.

Citing a Shanghai-based media outlet, The Paper, the report says, "India has more plains Big Change:
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than China and is surrounded by seas on three sides, which makes the lights appear
brighter. Forty-percent of Indian lands are plain and the mean attitude of the Deccan Plateau is less than 1,000 meters, while Chinas
plains make up 12 per cent. More than half of China is made up high-altitude plateaus and mountains, home to about 28 per cent of
population, which makes the western and northern regions of China seem dim in comparison."

Not satisfied with this explanation, the grid corporation tries harder but ends up sounding illogical: "In the map, India has more lights
from villages, which take up more space, while China has more large cities that appear as big, round lights that are not as intense as the
lights in India." What this actually means is India has electricity in a wider area and even China's big cities don't look as bright.
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Then it goes on to contradict itself by saying the map does not measure the intensity of the lights at all.

China's state-sponsored paper doesn't stop at that. It goes on to offer old data on electrification in India.

Citing The Economic Times, the report says, "More than 300 million Indians are living without electricity and more than 18,000 villages
dont have electricity."

These are old figures. India set a target of electrifying 18,452 village in 2015. This year in March, the government announced it had
electrified 13,000 villages out of 18,452 unelectrified villages and the remaining would be electrified by May 2018.

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