S.C. Kaushik

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for accessing comparative efficiencies of Indian State Owned Electric Utilities (SOEUs), which have been mainly responsible for the generation, distribution and transmission of electricity in India.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the likely impacts of the major policy reforms unveiled by the Government of India for revamping the country's power sector, including power trading, role of regulator in the new regime, issue of open access, empowerment of the consumers and the environmental issues.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the recently enacted Electricity Act 2003 and evaluate the implications of the provisions of the Act for the Indian power sector, which has introduced major policy shift and is likely to have far reaching implications for the power generation, transmission and distribution scenario within India.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented an overview of the ongoing distribution sector reforms in India and subsequently evolved a methodology illustrated with a case study on the state of Madhya Pradesh, which involved identification of five parameters viz. consumer numbers, energy sales, cultural affinity, area distribution and consumer categories.