Wrt the conventional wisdom that "Slums steal massive amounts of power without paying a rupee". Frontline magazine did a study which showed that a huge amount

Wrt the conventional wisdom that "Slums steal massive amounts of power without paying a rupee". Frontline magazine did a study which showed that a huge amount of power theft was occuring at industrial consumers. http://www.flonnet.com/fl1906/19060950.htm http://www.flonnet.com/fl1906/19060950.htm (it's a little dry in the typical Frontline style. I hope you will read it). Also, you didn't mention businesses in places in Chandni Chowk, Lajpat Nagar etc? Given the other "cost-cutting"^Wtax-evading measures they take, I would feel very confident in assuming that they don't pay for most of their energy use.