The Government of India has made several interventions to improve financial and operational efficiencies of DISCOMs linked to reform measures including Liquidity Infusion Scheme (LIS); Additional Borrowing of 0.5% of GSDP to States linked to power sector reforms; introducing additional prudential norms for lending by Power Finance Corporation (PFC) Limited and REC Limited; and Revamped […]
The primary responsibility of providing 24×7 power supply to all consumers lies with the concerned Power Distribution Companies (DISCOMs). Government of India, Ministry of Power had taken up a joint initiative during 2014 to 2017 with all States/UTs and prepared State/UT specific action plan documents for providing 24×7 power supply to all households, industrial & […]
Steps by Government to reduce Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) losses to ensure 24X7 power supply. Government of India launched the Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) in December, 2014 under which Distribution Infrastructure projects for strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution networks in urban areas metering of distribution transformers / feeders / consumers in the urban […]
Government of India have launched the Reforms-based and Results- linked, Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme, with the objective of improving the quality and reliability of power supply to consumers through a financially sustainable and operationally efficient Distribution Sector. The scheme aims to reduce the AT&C losses to pan-India levels of 12-15% and ACS-ARR gap to zero […]
Government of India have launched the Reforms-based and Results-linked Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme with the objective of improving the quality and reliability of power supply to consumers through a financially sustainable and operationally efficient distribution Sector. The scheme has an outlay of Rs.3,03,758 crore and estimated GBS from Central Government of Rs.97,631 crore. The financial […]
Government of India‟s goal is to make India a significant design and manufacturing hub by broadening and deepening our electronic manufacturing ecosystem. Steps taken by the Government to promote the electronics hardware manufacturing sector in the country : National Policy on Electronics 2019: The National Policy on Electronics 2019 (NPE 2019) has been notified by […]
The Government of India approved the Green Energy Corridor – Intra-State Transmission System Phase-II scheme on 06.01.2022. The project cost is Rs. 12,031.33 crore with Central Financial Assistance (CFA) @ 33% of the project cost i.e. Rs 3,970.34 crore. The transmission infrastructure under the scheme will be setup in seven states namely Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, […]
The Government of India launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in December, 2014 for rural electrification works including separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders, strengthening and augmentation of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure, metering at distribution transformers/feeders/consumers and electrification of villages across the country. As reported by the States, all the inhabited un-electrified census […]
Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana – Saubhagya in October, 2017 with the objective to achieve universal household electrification for providing electricity connections to all willing un-electrified households in rural areas and all willing poor households in urban areas in the country by March, 2019. All households were reported […]