{"id":30547,"date":"2025-03-04T05:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30547"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:50:43","slug":"mission-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mission-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mission 300 Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB), along with key partners have launched Mission 300<\/p>\n<h2>About Mission 300<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>ambitious initiative<\/strong> to provide electricity to <strong>300 million people <\/strong>in <strong>Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It aims to accelerate the pace of electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa while ensuring that the transition to more diversified and cleaner sources of energy meets growing demand, brings economic growth, and creates jobs.<\/li>\n<li>It is led by the <strong>World Bank and the African Development Bank<\/strong>, in collaboration with key partners, Rockefeller Foundation, Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL), and Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP).<\/li>\n<li>The significant leap will deliver reliable, sustainable, and affordable electricity to people, businesses, schools, and hospitals all over the continent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Components of Mission 300<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Expanding the electricity grid and increasing connections in underserved areas.<\/li>\n<li>Deploying <strong>mini-grids and standalone solar solutions<\/strong> to bring power to remote, off-grid communities.<\/li>\n<li>Local communities are actively involved in the design and implementation of all World Bank Group supported Mission 300 projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mission 300 FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>What is the African Development Bank?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The African Development Bank ( AfDB ) was founded in 1964 with a mission to advance economic development and social progress in Africa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>Which country is Sub-Saharan Africa?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Sub-Saharan Africa region contains 53 countries with an estimated total population of 1.03 billion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/five-powerful-lessons-from-indias-electrification-success-for-mission-300\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission 300 is an ambitious initiative to provide electricity to 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}