Growth and Distribution of Electricity Subsidy in India During Pre and Post liberalization

Indian Government play vital role in agriculture sector development. This vital role includes import-export policies and domestic policies like price support programmes, direct payments, and input subsidies to influence the cost farm inputs like credit, fertilizers, seeds, irrigation water, etc. Of all the domestic support of agriculture, input subsidies are the most common. In this paper, an attempt is made to analysis the growth and distribution of electricity subsidies in India during the pre as well as post liberalization period. Results showed that there is unequal distribution of electricity subsidy among all the zones of India during the research period 1980–81 to 2008–09. It is suggested that while distribution of the electricity subsidy among the zones some criteria like gross cropped area, productivity etc. should be adopted.