A decade after Enron withdrew from the project, the Indian government and two Indian companies are promising to bring the plant to full capacity. The tragedy, as Mr. Bhalekar and his fellow villagers see it, is that even after the plant is fully operational, their daily blackouts — now from 3 to 7:3…
    This says it all. “
State authorities promise to have the plant running at 100 percent by the end of the month. But, so far, this plant remains a monument not to the problems of Enron, but to India’s own corruption, cronyism and weak economic policies — some of the reasons that India remains a perpetual second fiddle to China, its increasingly powerful rival. For all the progress India has made in information technology and service-sector jobs, the country is still unable to provide reliable power, water, roads and other basic infrastructure to most of its 1.2 billion people. For instance, about 40 percent of the country’s population is not connected to the electricity grid.”
State authorities promise to have the plant running at 100 percent by
   Âthe end of the month. But, so far, this plant remains a monument not to
the problems of Enron, but to India’s
own corruption, cronyism and weak economic policies — some of the
reasons that India remains a perpetual second fiddle to China, its
increasingly powerful rival.
For all the progress India has made in information technology and
service-sector jobs, the country is still unable to provide reliable
power, water, roads and other basic infrastructure to most of its 1.2
billion people. For instance, about 40 percent of the country’s
population is not connected to the electricity grid.”