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The volume takes up questions relating to the importance of energy access and what it means and links energy access to inclusive growth and poverty reduction. It deals with energy poverty, improved energy access for all-round rural development and renewable energy as a way forward in providing energy access to all. Specifically looking into present-day energy policy in India, the chapters view India’s electricity status, and aspects linked to rural electrification like policies, the Electricity Act 2003 and electricity access programmes. The work deals with access to cooking energy and subsidies and funding related to it, agricultural pump sets in rural areas and rural energy market. With tables and figures including graphs, it highlights the electrification status in the country including projects, health effects of biomass fuel use in cooking, and air pollution. It details involvement of international organisations like the World Bank in energy programmes in South Asia.