This hides all the structural problems that still persist. Large land holdings with a huge landless population, and a domination of the academy, bureaucracy, and industry by traditional upper castes, leaving the dispossesed with very little room to manouvre. One of the many ironies of the situation is that India has a vast number of handloom weavers who are unemployed, while the state continues to subsidize power projects, displacing vast numbers of people who add to the list of the unemployed. Handloom cloth loses out merely on account of state subsidies, on roads, fuel, higher education, water, and ofcourse land, none of which is available to the small producer. I feel that a lot of sustainable practices suffer merely on account of the hidden role that cheap fuel pays in the transportation of materials across the earth.
Nothing goes to the electricity sector.
The reason its so expensive is that the class oif leisure spinners, who used to hand spin the yarn for this process, have disappeared, partly by the systemic wiping out of the Indian textile industry by the British colonial rule. To me, growth is definitely an illusion, and a red herring. What we need or desire is consumables, and using a meaningless number is merely distractive. The existence of the 'growth' concept as something we should try and attain, is definitely harmful in my opinion.