Articles by Anand Patwardhan

The National Democratic Alliance government has targeted to electrify all villages by the end of 2018. But simply establishing electric connections does not translate into adequate, affordable and good quality supply. This article examines the possibility of setting up rural electric cooperatives and assesses the successful examples in some other countries.

We, the undersigned, unequivocally condemn the foisting of a false case on Debaranjan, member of the Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sanghatana (GASS) in Odisha.

The terms "green jobs" and "green economy" are in vogue due to the observation that many renewable energy technologies seem to create more jobs per unit of installed capacity and per unit power generated compared to fossil fuel technologies. From a policy perspective, it is not only important to estimate the overall employment effect but to probe further into the nature and distribution of jobs created. This article attempts to characterise jobs created for select RETs as a function of multiple attributes. Further, it estimates the aggregate jobs/MW metric for these RETs using secondary data analysis. The estimates have been used to arrive at existing and projected jobs in India.

We deeply regret the death and devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and are gravely concerned at the disaster at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station.