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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Electricity subsidies for poor are stolen by the rich -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Aditi Roy Ghatak & Maya Palit

Electricity subsidies for poor are stolen by the rich -Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Aditi Roy Ghatak & Maya Palit

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published Published on Feb 18, 2016   modified Modified on Feb 18, 2016
-IndiaClimateDialogue.net

While over 20% of India’s population has no access to electricity, the richest 40% of the population gets highly subsidised power; the second of a three-part series on the subsidy skew

Along with coal mining, electricity is regulated by the state in India and subsidised. Electricity tariffs are kept deliberately low for poor households. Unfortunately much of this electricity is allocated in such a way that business and industrial consumers as well as richest users in the domestic sector benefit rather than the poorest.

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IndiaClimateDialogue.net, 18 February, 2016, http://indiaclimatedialogue.net/2016/02/18/electricity-subsidies-for-poor-are-stolen-by-rich/


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