Per capita expenditure on education, healthcare and a thousand other statistics that look respectable, by international standards, on the surface: but do they tell us the whole story on how much or how little the government is doing for all of the 1.1 billion people in the country? Abhishek checks the per capita deception in the electricity consumption figures the government doles out:

So why is the per-capita figure by Tulsi Tanti deceiving? Because half of the billion people being talked about do not have access to the energy and do not use it or waste it. So most of the energy which is being used is from the urban population aggregates of India. Divide India’s energy use by the urban population and you’ll end up with a number nearly double of the world average. Our urban cities have some of the most inefficient power management systems and unoptimized consumer appliances. Every time somebody tries pointing that out, somebody BIG shoves the 800kw statistic into their face.