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Thursday, July 24, 2025
TopicElectricity

Topic: electricity

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. 

Power distribution companies are slowing down Narendra Modi’s Saubhagya scheme

The Saubhagya scheme is crawling as distribution companies lack both capacity and incentive to supply to poor households.

Here’s the solution for 1.3 billion people still lacking electricity

Geospatial analysis shows that 'mini-grids' would be the cheapest technology to provide universal electricity access by 2030.

Is Modi’s new scheme Saubhagya a realistic goal given the health of state power utilities?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a new scheme called Saubhagya to ensure electrification of all willing households by 2019.

On Camera

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.