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The history of electricity in India traces an inverted arc like a smiley which starts in the colonial period with private electricity capacity leading, regresses to a mode of near complete public sector monopoly by the 1980s and then traces the upward incline to a near 50% share for private electricity suppliers not a full smiley but a slightly lop-sided one. The half-smile like Mona Lisa's masks long periods of misallocation of public capital, unabashed populism, and careless adherence to path dependencies' which plagues bureaucracies the world over.

From Lattus to Lasers: Realising India's

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      Publisher The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI
      Published 31 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9789394657021
      978-9394657021
      ISBN-10 9394657029
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Sustainability

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      Book Synopsis
      The history of electricity in India traces an inverted arc like a smiley which starts in the colonial period with private electricity capacity leading, regresses to a mode of near complete public sector monopoly by the 1980s and then traces the upward incline to a near 50% share for private electricity suppliers not a full smiley but a slightly lop-sided one. The half-smile like Mona Lisa's masks long periods of misallocation of public capital, unabashed populism, and careless adherence to path dependencies' which plagues bureaucracies the world over.

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