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100% Rural Electrification in India: Myth or Reality?

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Electricity is a foundation for basic development needs and essential for the betterment of lives. Limited or no access of electricity has a negative impact on growth and affects basic services like health, agriculture and study, which finally touches all the lives and livelihoods (Samanta 2015; Burlig and Preonas 2016). In India, a significant ratio of rural households still does not have access to electricity (Bhattacharyya 2006). Hence, un-electrified villages and lenient definition of electrified village are discouraging the goal of ‘24*7 Power to all.’

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  1. NTPC School of Business, Noida, India

    Atul Agrawal

  2. School of Business, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

    Anil Kumar & T. Joji Rao

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  1. Department of Economics, School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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  2. Department of Economics, School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

    Narendra N. Dalei

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Agrawal, A., Kumar, A., Joji Rao, T. (2020). 100% Rural Electrification in India: Myth or Reality?. In: Gupta, A., Dalei, N. (eds) Energy, Environment and Globalization. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9310-5_6

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