Re:India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by e...
by kungito on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:24AM
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I would guess people who are part of IT sector are less than 1% of the population and don't affect the statistic
Re:India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by e...
by itissid on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:36AM
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How much employment is generated by all of IT? TCS is the largest employer employing 385,809 people as said on the wiki.
Assuming ALL of them are in India. Assuming there are 10 TCS like IT companies, it gets you to 3.85 Million people employed. That's not even a dent in the # people affected by IT living where ever.
Re:India unveils $2.5B plan to electrify all households by e...
by w458cmau on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:28AM
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Households in IT in Bangalore were shared with around 4 or more afaik when I was living there in 2009. Monthly salaries were around ~300 USD which was not enough for most to comfortably live in their own apartment.
Soo.... The article suggests that there are roughly 4x40 million = 160 million households in the country, and 1.3 billion people. Divide the one by the other and you get an estimate for the household size of roughly 10 people. That seems rather larger to me, also given the fact that large IT cities like Bangalore are growing like crazy - all with one or two people in an appartment, not 10.
Next, getting 40 million households hooked up to the electricity network for 2.5 billion dollar. Dividing again gives 2500 dollar per 40 households or 60 dollar per house. While labor is cheap in India - this is not going to work.
And indeed: 40 million more housholds (or 300 million more Indians with access to electricity) is not going to do the networks much good...