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Topic: DISCOM

‘Unavoidable reasons’: UP discom scraps Adani Group tender for 70 lakh prepaid smart meters

Shikha Salaria -
Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd’s decision comes amid allegations of inflated pricing & cartelisation. UP Electricity Power Consumer Council claims Adani Group was lowest bidder.

Electricity Bill 2022 is a remedy worse than the disease afflicting India’s power sector

M.G. Devasahayam -
The 2022 Bill only takes forward the market-is-solution-for-all-ills theory of Montek Singh Ahluwalia who is the prime architect of Electricity Act 2003.

There’s an $80 billion hole in India’s net zero pledge at COP26

Andy Mukherjee -
Without reforming bankrupt discoms, India will struggle to meet its bold target of raising non-fossil-fuel generation capacity.

Punjab’s power shortage is due to its politicised freebies and subsidies, which has bankrupted discoms

ThePrint Team -
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What is Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 and why farmers are opposing it

Kairvy Grewal -
Farmers protesting against the three farm laws passed by the Centre are also against the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020.

Modi govt electrified India with poles & wires, but challenge is to keep electrons flowing

Ashwini K. Swain -
A major barrier to electricity access in India remains the concurrence between economic poverty and energy poverty.

Modi govt’s Uday scheme loses steam, power discom debts back to pre-2015 levels: Crisil

Remya Nair -
Report by rating agency Crisil suggests government 's Uday scheme not working, says states may implement another bailout or take 'hard decisions'.

Modi’s power industry revival plan takes a hit as discom losses rise

Rajesh Kumar Singh -
The stalled recovery will sustain discoms as the weakest link in India’s electricity supply chain & impede efforts to serve low-paying consumers.

Modi govt scheme to cut discom debts makes little headway, targets unlikely to be met

Remya Nair -
The discoms haven't met or are on the verge of missing deadlines even as states, which took over their debts, grapple with increased fiscal deficits. 

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Opinion

The court is not Rahul Gandhi’s uncle. Its job is to protect rights, not preach

Raju Ramachandran -
Which humanitarian crisis should be prioritised, which words are ‘simple’ enough to avoid hurt feelings, or who is a ‘true Indian’, are not questions warranting court input.

What’s behind N Chandrasekaran’s 5-year extension as Tata Sons chairman

Where is Skill India money going? It’s a Rs 48,000 crore mystery

Economy

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

Shanker Arnimesh -
New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

Defence

Trump feared India could arm BrahMos with nuclear warhead to target Pakistan in Op Sindoor—WSJ report

Javaria Rana -
New Delhi: During Operation Sindoor, the United States which had received intelligence suggesting that India had launched BrahMos cruise missiles to strike targets inside...

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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