MAJOR REFORMS EXPECTED IN THE ENERGY SECTOR, SAYS POWER MINISTER

In an article in  Financial Express, the power minister, Mr RK Singh, declared that huge reforms are to be expected in the power sector in the near future. Few of such reforms mentioned were PPAs for all the electricity requirement being made mandatory in all Indian states, cross subsidy in tariff being limited, compensation of low agriculture tariff  by increasing the industrial and commercial tariff and introduction of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). Also, introduction of a penalty provision  to those not meeting their RPO targets. This is in line with the Draft National Electricity Policy released by Niti Ayog in June 2017. The Union Minister also added that carriage and content shall be separated by his ministry which shall give the end user the flexibility to where they want to procure electricity from.