You know how much gasoline cost in US or Singapore or any country which have a open petroleum policy? They pay much less than we Indians in India. Similarly the fear that private generation and distribution of power would cost us more is just a myth. Today most of the power generated are lost due to inefficiency of transmission and theft. Let power be generated and distributed by private players and if Govt want let it pay the power bills of the poor which should still be less than the losses incurred by our electricity boards