Support Marketplace  What India must do to have a modern power
grid  A Power Department worker performs maintenance on
electrical cables during preparations for Mela Magh on the banks
of the River Ganges in Allahabad on Dec. 25, 2011. India's
energy infrastructure is unable to match its demand for
electricity, with government figures showing approximately
80,000 impoverished Indian villages with no access to the power
grid.  Kai Ryssdal: I don't know if you saw the news item
yesterday: a blackout in India that had left 300 million people
without power. Or, basically, the entire population of the
United States. It got -- if you can believe this -- worse today.
Three power failures and more than 600 million people without
electricity.  Power outages aren't new to India. In fact, a
whole backup generator industry has sprung up catering to
businesses and the rich. But for the country as a whole, growing
as fast as it is, there's a fairly intractable problem: Demand
outstripping the power supply.  From the Marketp