cover image: Unpacking India’s Electricity Subsidies: Reporting, transparency, and efficacy

Unpacking India’s Electricity Subsidies: Reporting, transparency, and efficacy

16 Dec 2020

This report brings together data on the state of electricity subsidies in India, covering all states and union territories, based on Power Finance Corporation reports and state-level documentation. It analyzes changes from FY 2016 to FY 2019—before and after the Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) scheme, a central government bailout that required electricity distribution companies to improve performance in many areas pertaining to their finances.
energy subsidies finance

Authors

Prateek Aggarwal, Anjali Viswamohanan, Danwant Narayanaswamy, Shruti Sharma

Published in
Canada
Rights
IISD, 2020

Files

Related Topics

All