People across India on Sunday switched off lights in their homes and instead lit earthen lamps, candles for nine minutes at 9 PM in response to prime minister Modi's call to mark fight against coronavirus.
The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country rose to 3,577 by Sunday evening. Of these, there were 3,219 active cases, 83 deaths, 274 cured / discharged and one migrated case, according to the health ministry.
Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call, people across the country switched off lights in their homes at 9 pm for nine minutes and lit earthen lamps, candles or switched on the torches and mobile phone lights in a show of solidarity in fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
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President Ram Nath Kovind with the First Lady and members of his family joined citizens in demonstrating collective solidarity and positivity by lighting candles at 9 PM. He expressed his gratitude towards every Indian for showing resolve in fight against COVID19: President’s Secretariat
'Power demand went down from 117 GW to 85.3 GW during the lights off: Power Minister
Minister of Power (Independent Charge) R K Singh, along with Power Secretary and other senior officers are monitored the power grid operations from National Power Monitoring Centre in Shram Shakti Bhawan on Sunday evening when people across India switched off the lights in their homes at PM Modi's call. The minister said there was huge response to Prime Minister's call as power demand went down from 117 GW to 85.3 GW within a span of 4-5 minutes. This was handled very very well by engineers across all levels.
Congratulating the engineers, the minister said a ramp up was also done very smoothly as Demand/supply is back to 110 GW.
PM Modi lights diya at his residence
PM Narendra Modi lights a lamp after turning off all lights at his residence. I
PM Modi's mother lights earthen lamp at 9PM
PM Modi's mother, Heeraben, also lighted an earthen lamp after turning off all lights at her residence.
Delhi, Noida cops switch on mobile torches in solidarity with country
Delhi and Noida police personnel at the Delhi-Noida border near Mayur Kunj in New Delhi flashed the lights of their mobile phones for nine minutes at 9 pm to show solidarity with the rest of the country
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla lights diays
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla lighted earthern lamps along with family.
Crackers being burst as lights are switched off
People also burst crackers during the 9 minutes that they turned off lights and lit earthen lamps
BJP President JP Nadda lights diyas
BJP President JP Nadda turned off all the lights of his residence and lighted earthen lamps at 9 PM.
UP CM Yogi lights diyas to form 'Om' in response to PM's call
UP CM Yogi Adityanath lights earthen lamps to form an 'Om', at his residence. PM Modi had appealed to the nation to switch off all lights of houses today at 9 PM for 9 minutes, and just light a candle, 'diya', or flashlight, to mark India's fight against coronavirus: ANI
India switches off lights to ‘challenge Covid-19 darkness’ at PM Modi’s call
India switches off lights to ‘challenge Covid-19 darkness’ at PM Modi’s call
First published: Apr 05, 2020 05:16 IST