Power Plans

Country's Power Plans have gone hay wire and the entire administration at Central & State levels show to be agitated about it. But at ground level very little action is seen. Industries who are operating at close to their installed capcities have their own captive generation units and have self electric generation as a basic assumption when they draft their business plans, be it the domestic or export market.

On the other hand farmers and residential consumers are left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately our rulers believe that they can continue to get away with the euphemism of providing free power for ever and continuously increase the numbers who become eligible for it as well. It is time that responsible leaders take the trouble of impressing up on one and all the fallacy behind this whole effort.

An complete overhaul of the system of directing the subsidies to the targeted, to decentralisation of activities, breaking up the Goliath organisations to manageable and accountable entities is the need of the hour. As you have argued correctly in your leader, any efforts to derail this effort should be discouraged.

Policy makers can look at alternatives and they need to provide special incentives to performing organisations. But having decided on a direction and the pace at which they will move forward, any dithering in way will put the hapless millions in to further misery.