those households above the poverty line will pay for their connection at prescribed connection charges and no government subsidy will be released for this purpose in the case of decentralised systems capital subsidies should not give rise to too many differences between the price that remote villages powered by ddg systems will pay for electricity and the price paid by villages connected to the grid but rural electricity tariffs are often lower than the average cost of electricity supply and state governments are responsible for making budgetary provisions for subsidised electricity supply