Understanding and Assessing Impact of Transmission and Distribution Projects on Electricity Access
The North Eastern Region (NER) of India stretches across the eastern foothills of the Himalayan mountain range. Geographically, the region is connected to the other parts of the country through a small ‘chicken neck’ corridor in the state of West B...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/973621548947491927/Understanding-and-Assessing-Impact-of-Transmission-and-Distribution-Projects-on-Electricity-Access http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31235 |
| Summary: | The North Eastern Region (NER) of India
stretches across the eastern foothills of the Himalayan
mountain range. Geographically, the region is connected to
the other parts of the country through a small ‘chicken
neck’ corridor in the state of West Bengal. With a total
population of 45.6 million (2011 census), the sparsely
populated NER covers 7.9 percent of India’s total
geographical area. The vast majority of the region’s
population (82 percent, 2011 census) lives in rural areas.
The region possesses substantial estimated energy reserves,
significant hydropower potential and natural gas reserves in
the country. However, development in the NER has remained
constrained due to several issues including deficit in
physical infrastructure, poor connectivity, difficult and
hilly terrain, etc. On the electricity access front, the
region has a small and underdeveloped power system, with
limited electricity access levels in rural areas and
significant bottlenecks in the intra-state Transmission and
Distribution (T&D) network. |
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