Exclusive review of ministry's plan shows it aims to augment India’s coal and hydro capacity and revamp key policies to boost thermal and hydroelectric power generation capabilities.
The decision has been taken keeping in mind the expected increase in electricity demand during the summer season due to higher temperatures across the country.
The water cess was opposed by Union govt, as well as neighbouring states of Punjab & Haryana. Sukhu govt says it decided to levy tax 'in line with' BJP-ruled Uttarakhand.
The new policy will come into effect from April 2024 for commercial and industrial consumers and a year later for most other consumers except those in the agricultural sector.
Union govt letter dated 31 March says states imposing cess on hydel projects may not get access to power from central government's pool of unallocated quota in Central Generating Stations.
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 first 2 months of 2022-23, several power plants ran out of coal due to delays in transportation. As a result, Indian Railways had to cancel passenger trains to make way for freight trains.
In 109 of 165 thermal power plants that are currently operational, the actual coal stock is less than 25 per cent of normative stock that they are mandated to keep.
Of the 17.6 gigawatts of India’s power generation capacity that’s designed to use imported coal, just 10 gigawatts is currently operating, the power ministry said.
In a conversation with ThePrint, Tamil Nadu Planning Commission Executive Vice-Chairperson says it's impossible for Apple to shift manufacturing units from Tamil Nadu to US, given the cost.
Speaking at CII event, Defence Secy Rajesh Kumar Singh also said MoD is revising Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 to better align with operational realities and expedite decision-making.
Asim Munir locked up Imran Khan, had his handmaiden parliament give himself an extended tenure. But the additional jingle of that fifth star will not change facts on the ground.
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