Electrifying India

Electrifying India
Author: Sunila S. Kale
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0804791023

Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then until now. Yet despite all this, sixty-five years after independence nearly 400 million Indians have no access to electricity. Electrifying India explores the political and historical puzzle of uneven development in India's vital electricity sector. In some states, nearly all citizens have access to electricity, while in others fewer than half of households have reliable electricity. To help explain this variation, this book offers both a regional and a historical perspective on the politics of electrification of India as it unfolded in New Delhi and three Indian states: Maharashtra, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh. In those parts of the countryside that were successfully electrified in the decades after independence, the gains were due to neither nationalist idealism nor merely technocratic plans, but rather to the rising political influence and pressure of rural constituencies. In looking at variation in how public utilities expanded over a long period of time, this book argues that the earlier period of an advancing state apparatus from the 1950s to the 1980s conditioned in important ways the manner of the state's retreat during market reforms from the 1990s onward.

India Design Year Book

India Design Year Book
Author: CII
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9352141261

The CII India Design Yearbook 2014 is a medium to communicate the best of design emanating from India in diverse design disciplines. These yearbooks become an international reference for excellent design. Companies, journalists, architects, planners, designers and people all over the world who are interested in design use the yearbooks for their day-to-day work and keep them over the years as collectors’ items and an archive of excellent design. This is the second instalment of the yearbook, which aims to capture over 200 recent projects in which the companies / design firms have employed agile design thinking, methodology and processes to achieve success for clients, partners and end users.

India Yearbook 2020 Part-1 for UPSC Civil Services Examination

India Yearbook 2020 Part-1 for UPSC Civil Services Examination
Author: R P Meena
Publisher: MYUPSC
Total Pages: 123
Release:
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

India Yearbook 2020 Part-1 for UPSC Civil Services Examination India Yearbook 2020 Part-1 for UPSC IAS Civil Services Examination GS Paper Contents: 1. Land & the People 2. National Symbols 3. Indian Polity 4. Agriculture 5. Culture & Tourism 6. Basic Economic Data 7. Commerce 8. Communications & Information Technology 9. Defence 10. Education 11. Energy 12. Geography & Environment 13. Finance/ Economy 14. Corporate Affairs 15. Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs

TERI Energy & Environment Data Diary and Yearbook (TEDDY) 2016/17

TERI Energy & Environment Data Diary and Yearbook (TEDDY) 2016/17
Author: TERI
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-03-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9386530139

TERI Energy & Environment Data Diary and Yearbook (TEDDY) is an annual publication brought out by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 1986. It is the only comprehensive energy and environment yearbook in India that provides updated information on the energy supply sectors (coal and lignite, petroleum and natural gas, power, and renewable energy sources), energy demand sectors (agriculture, industry, transport, household), and local and global environment sectors (environment and climate change). The publication also provides a review of the government policies that have implications for the sectors of the Indian economy. In TEDDY, an account of India’s commercial energy balances is given, which provide comprehensive information on energy flows within different sectors of the economy and how they have been changing over time. These energy balances and conversion factors are a valuable ready reckoner for researchers, scholars, and organizations working in the energy sector. After the introductory chapters, for the ease of readers, TEDDY has been divided into sections on energy supply, energy demand, and local and global environment. Interactive graphs, figures, maps, and tables have been used throughout the chapters to explain facts, which make the book an interesting read. In addition, detailed tables at the end of each chapter represent statistical data on each of the above-mentioned sectors. The publication is accompanied by a complimentary CD containing full text. The publication has more than 15,000 readers across the globe and is often cited in international peer-reviewed journals and policy documents.