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Topic: DISCOM

Rs 1 lakh fine, 6-month ultimatum—Haryana regulator’s jolt to DISCOM for illegally tapping developer’s feeder

Sushil Manav -
HERC has given DHBVN six months to make alternate arrangements for MAPSKO, which has been drawing electricity through an unauthorised connection for over two and a half years.

‘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

Trump threatened to redraw the map. Greenland deal shows the limits of his disruption

Swasti Rao -
The bargain was never sovereignty in exchange for security. It was extensive American military freedom inside continuing Danish sovereignty.

Siddharth in Lust Stories 3 shows Bollywood’s men have come a long way since shirtless Salman

Alfred Cooke is the Bull who cooked the PAF’s goose. He deserved more than a Vir Chakra

Economy

Tiruppur’s success runs on cheap cotton. India needs to ask who pays for it

Bidisha Bhattacharya -
Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.

Defence

At Tejas trainer handover, Rajnath warns delays can lead to ‘technology obsoletion’

Snehesh Alex Philip -
HAL finally closes 2010 Tejas order but work remains on Mk1A and the first delivery is unlikely before IAF chief retires end of October.

National Interest

Bangladesh isn’t a mirror image of Pakistan. Hyphenating them undermines India’s strategic interests

Shekhar Gupta -
India is caught in a trap of its own making. While BJP may find it convenient to play on insecurities, it gives Pakistan and Bangladesh leverage.

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