Specials

Manipur’s electricity landscape is improving steadily, and prepaid meters are contributing significantly to this change. Starting with pilot installations in 2011, the government has so far connected nearly half of the 300,000 consumers in the […]

In December 2015, Parliament passed the Atomic Energy (Amendment) Bill, 2015, which made changes to the Atomic Energy Act, 1962. It expanded the scope of the latter to allow all PSUs to set up nuclear […]

In a bid to curb  pollution levels in the country, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified revised emission standards for coal-based power plants, which are proposed to be implemented in a […]

After private players pulled out of the bidding process for the Bedabahal and Cheyyur ultra mega power projects (UMPPs), leading to the cancellation of the tendering process in 2015, the central government realised the need […]

On January 20, 2016, continuing the policy overhaul in the power sector, the cabinet approved the amendments to the Tariff Policy, 2006. Such comprehensive amendments have been made for the first time in a decade […]

Inadequate tariffs have been identified as the key reason for the weak financial position of the discoms. The interference of the state governments in tariff determination has been responsible for tariffs not being cost-reflective. While […]