A chance for Scindia to light up India

Abstract

While considering the successes of independent India, the absence of 100 per cent electrification must rank among the nation’s prominent failures. Despite the “inclusive” growth rhetoric, economic value remains locked and individual empowerment stunted. An Aakash tablet does little good if a villager cannot charge its batteries. Internet access as a tool then remains a pipedream. This cruelty is exacerbated when electricity plants idle for lack of fuel because coal blocks are treated as rent seeking opportunities.