India suffers from chronic energy poverty. Even after 65 years of independence, one-third of India's households have no access to grid power. More than a million households go dark after sunset.

But India’s energy poverty also provides an opportunity to design a new energy future for the world. It could be the way to solves its twin problems of energy poverty and climate change, in one stroke.

But what is the ground reality? Check it out yourself by ordering a copy – sure to give you some very useful ideas to implement at your own level.

Research director : Chandra Bhushan
Lead researcher : Joel Kumar
Contributors : Kushal Pal Singh Yadav, Ankur Paliwal and Sayantan Bera
ISBN: 978-81-86906-64-4
Pages: 92
Year : 2012