Powering India at Household Level: State Effort, Issues and Concerns

Jain, Varinder (2018): Powering India at Household Level: State Effort, Issues and Concerns.

Abstract

Even after 70 years of independence, a significant proportion of households in India are not having access to electricity. To correct this situation, the Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has announced recently a new scheme, Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, also called ‘Saubhagya’ scheme with an estimated expenditure of Rs. 16,320 crore. This brief note attempts to review this scheme through SWOT analysis along with providing some background to the State Effort in powering India at the household level.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: India, Household Electrification, Rural Electrification, State Policy
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H41 - Public Goods; H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H54 - Infrastructures ; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being

References

GoI (2013) Implementation of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana, 41st Report, Standing Committee on Energy, December 13.

Jain, Varinder (2006) Political Economy of the Electricity Subsidy: Evidence from Punjab, Economic and Political Weekly, 41(38): 4072-4080.

Nair, R. (2017) How Modi’s Saubhagya Yojana Simply Repackaged an Already-Repackaged Scheme, The Wire, September 29.