Introduction India, one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last two decades, has not been able to provide hundred per cent access to electricity at household level in the rural areas of the country (Dugoua, Liu, & Urpelainen, 2017). Nevertheless, in April 2018, the Prime Minister of India declared that every single village in India has now access to electricity. Interestingly, it does not mean that now every household has access to electricity.