Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Right to access

Looking for efficient or power saving devices may be a prerogative for the world's haves, but for millions who do not have access to electricity, these are irrelevant. When basic healthcare is denied due to lack of power facilities, when schooling is a gruelling task by candle lights, discussions on smart meters and power losses seem meaningless.

So what can be done? Do you think it is time access to power is declared a basic human right? Can we urge governments to take on this job of providing basic minimal power to these areas still in the dark? Should that not be top on the priority of governments?

What do you think? How can this be done? Where government funds are the problem, should private public partnerships be the way forward?

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