However, nearly one-fifth of India’s rural households (around 31 million) still remain in acute darkness. DDUGJY, for example, provided electricity access to the remaining 18,452 inhabited villages. The rapid pace of rural electrification has clearly not been matched by adoption at the household level. This lack of reliability often discourages households from adopting electricity, which disincentivises discoms, thus undermining investment in rural electrification. Little wonder that basic economic logic militates against rural households in areas with poor power reliability adopting grid electricity.

Source: Mint May 08, 2018 16:30 UTC