“It is obvious that the interests of the paying public, the natural resources and the fragile environment of the state cannot be adequately protected with the existing industry structure. A state level coordinating body to consider all the relevant issues in meeting the additional demand for electricity at the lowest overall societal cost is an urgent necessity…”

Energy and Agriculture in the Third World (Part – VII)

“The relatively large investments required for irrigation and the associated power facilities cannot be expected to come from farmers who live a hand-to-mouth existence, the schemes must be initiated by government investment. This is doubly true since the rich in underdeveloped countries prefer to live and to invest their money in the cities...”

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