Five More States to Kick Start Power Sector Reforms
In addition to Meghalaya, Goa and Uttarakhand, five more states would be signing a joint statement of reforms with the Central Government in order to enable 24×7 power supplies to consumers. The states Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Assam are set to take up the government’s “Power for All” programme. Maharashtra is also trying to achieve the impetus to take up the programme. As the Center is pursuing states to cut their losses and by hiking tariff and raising funds from the market, the states would be hiking their tariffs as follows:-
Among these big states only Andhra Pradesh doesn’t require any raise in the tariff, as it is not burdened with any financial losses unlike the rest of the states. The following graph depicts the financial losses incurred and the funds required by the states to cover up their losses, with Rajasthan being the state with highest financial losses and Assam being the least.
The above update has been taken from Business Standard’s article published on 19th October, 2015 which can be accessed here.
Our previous blog on power sector reforms can be accessed here.