Guest Column LaBL: need to study microlevel economic impact By Deepak Parvatiyar (This article was published in Journey towards a Billion – A quarterly newsletter on Lighting a Billion Lives© Campaign, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), on 9 July 2009) http://labl.teriin.org/pdf/LaBL_July%2009.pdf The Jhamvu Vas village in Mewat district of Haryana is an eye opener. The village with 400 houses gets power supply hardly for about four hours a day. Like hundreds of villages across the country, life comes to a standstill here once the sun sets. Yet, on the surface, Jhamvu Vas is unlike many other villages that always wear the mask of backwardness. With paved roads where occasionally some tractors and bikes pass by, pucca houses, computer centres, school going children, and even a Vodafone shop, the diligent denizens of the village have apparently done well for themselves. But they deserve more than what they indeed get— regular electric supply. That
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