21 August 2013

Not fully ‘empowered’, yet

Electricity is reaching almost all villages but by no means all households. An article by Narasimha Rao and N. Sreekumar in The Hindu Business Line.

An article by Narasimha Rao and N. Sreekumar about the weaknesses in the current rural electrification program and how they can be overcome. The article discusses an important topic that has not received the attention it deserves among all the talk of gas price increase, coal shortages, and distribution utility finances.

Read the article on The Hindu Business Line page: Not fully ‘empowered’, yet


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