Cautious Optimism? - the Indian Power Sector

In the mid-1930s Mahatma Gandhi in his pursuit of freedom for Indian society, established an ashram in a remote village, in the middle of India called Segaon. Segaon had no electricity but India's political elite would make their way there to talk to Gandhi in the dark about policy. Fifty years after gaining independence, India's politicians, faced with a lack of electricity in the countryside as only 30% of rural Indian households have access to sustained electricity supplies, are often accused of remaining in the dark when it comes to implementing policy to remedy matters. However, with India's economy growing at 10% a year, the staggering financial outlay needed for the energy sector across the country to maintain such a growth pattern has prompted significant reforms.