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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicElectricity

Topic: electricity

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

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

Indian electorate cares about electricity – but the power sector remains deeply challenged

A case study of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha shows how state governments are struggling to provide power access & quality while balancing prices.

Weak power demand indicates more slowdown pain ahead

Listless growth in electricity demand points to lack of appetite among factories & commercial firms who consume about half of India’s power.

Poor electricity service quality plagues Modi’s Saubhagya scheme, but there are ways out

Modi's ambitious rural electrification scheme will work if it breaks away from the traps of power theft, non-repayment and low electricity demand.

As Rs 412 billion piles up in electricity dues, India could implement prepaid system

Power producers, among the biggest holders of soured loans in India, have cited mounting dues from retailers as a key reason for their financial stress.

Railways plans to electrify more than 6,000 km of rail network in fiscal 2019, says Piyush Goyal

Huge investment in railways over the past five years had helped improve safety and complete long-delayed projects, said the railway minister.

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

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. 

Modi’s Saubhagya scheme can create serious problems with electricity tariffs

Urbanisation and industrialisation—the two words that can solve India's power woes.

How India’s impressive electrification compares with South Asian nations

Modi’s flagship Saubhagya scheme is completing a decade of intense efforts started with Manmohan Singh’s aggressive policies.

This village near Delhi has had no power for 18 days and has to pay even to charge phones

The residents of Kanawani, who have been living in darkness since 25 August, say the transformers in their village keep blowing up because of excessive load. 

On Camera

Why India fell off the global middle-class map

A stunted middle class may be a direct result of extreme inequality. Folks at the top don’t see teeming masses as a meaningful market, except for utilities, soap, short videos, and personal loans.

India’s inflation figures tell a growth story, a cautiously optimistic one

Based on inflation figures for the last three months, RBI is expected to look for confirmatory evidence that can mark the beginning of a sustained decline in core inflation.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.