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Can Rationing The Electricity Be A Solution For The Time Being? Also, Subsidising CFL Bulb
Oct 3 2009, GA

“Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one’s allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.”

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