Unmetered Farm Power Let Indian Industries Steal Electricity and Hide Losses
Navroz Dubash · Ep# 15 | WTF is Climate Change? Nikhil ft. Sunita, Bhumi, Navroz and Mirik · Nikhil Kamath · Feb 8, 2024 · at 1:20:27
Navroz Dubash outlines the historical and political drivers behind chronic financial losses in Indian power distribution utilities (DISCOMs).
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“What happened in India is that they said we'll give free power to farmers. The farmers stopped being metered, right? And when the farmers stopped being metered, you didn't know what was happening to the electricity. And so industry started conniving with the linesmen to steal electricity and saying, oh, it must be the farmers.”
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