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India’s Dangerous Electrification Effort

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India’s Dangerous Electrification Effort

Human, animal lives at risk

May 4, 2023
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By: Nava Thakuria

India has made an astonishing effort to electrify its 279 million-plus households even in the face of extreme rural and urban poverty, with the share of households using electricity as the primary source of lighting rising from 26 percent in 1980 to 97 percent in 2020. Over the past two decades alone, successive government schemes have …

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