00948pab a2200169 454500 180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Rao, S.L. The political economy of power 2002 p.3433-444. 17 Aug India has taken a long time to arrive at a reasonable direction for the improvement of the power sector. For long it has been difficult to strike a proper balance between the commercial viability of the sector and the imperative need to make power available even to those deficient in resources to pay for it. This paper discusses the various issues in the sector and the present state of the reforms programme. It sees some room for hope growing understanding of the sector that seems to have developed among policy-makers. - Reproduced. Power industry - India Power industry Economic and Political Weekly 53316 53316 53316 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 37, Issue no: 33 AR53753 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR