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The previous chapters have described and analyzed the household behavior and impact when a new energy technology has been presented to them. This refers to the demand side situation. In contrast, Chapter 2 has provided a macro overview of the supply side while the following chapter analyses how in future the households are expected to behave and how far the supply may be provided. In between one needs to know how things are actually happening on the ground. For this, we depend on primary survey data on PO field offices. As already mentioned, we had found 167 PO field offices operating in the 64 treatment villages. Our analysis is based on the reports received from these field officials of the POs. Some of the issues that they mentioned are verifiable with information from the households. This will be done as far as possible. Note that the technical issues will not be dealt with in this chapter; these are analyzed separately in chapter 8. The managerial and operational issues will be mainly discussed and analyzed in this chapter.