Telangana Rythu Power Distribution Company for agri sector got licence to begin ops on 10 July but regulator has asked for ‘comprehensive, forward-looking business plan in 3 months’.
A new policy will allow private companies to directly procure electricity from power-generating firms through purchase agreements, reducing their dependence on state utilities.
Employees have urged CM Yogi Adityanath to take over the department from Sharma, saying the minister had reneged on agreements with them and was pushing privatisation.
The Indian government must reform its model of state ownership of DISCOMs. A more market-driven approach will improve autonomy, and financial viability.
The road to discom privatisation has several challenges— resistance from stakeholders, political interference, and disputes over tariff structures, to name a few.
When high tariff paying customers leave, discom finances will further deteriorate. Discoms, therefore, find ways to not allow open access to keep customers captive.
In its letter to states & UTs, power ministry says large regulatory assets created by SERCs without specifying mandatory trajectory for their recovery is in contravention of law.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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