Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020
Recently, several states like West Bengal, Punjab, Puducherry, Kerala, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have voiced their concerns against the proposed Draft Electricity(Amendment) Bill.
Need of Amendment
- The amendment bill was brought to deal with the current challenges plaguing the Indian power sector seem to be derived from a long-drawn history of structural issues being sub-optimally addressed, if not neglected.
- These include operational and financial inefficiencies of generation, transmission and distribution utilities, access and quality of power supply, political interference, lack of private investments, inadequate public infrastructure and lack of consumer participation.
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