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Privatisation of the Electricity Power Industry - creaming the profits while society bears the losses

Sunday, 07 September 2008 11:51 Dr.K Ashok Rao

1.0 General Principles
In order to understand the proposition of privatisation of electrical power industry it is necessary to first understand the dynamics of the industry. Electrical power industry has the following characteristics:
(i) It is highly capital and skill intensive.
(ii) It has no finished goods inventory - the generation and consumption is simultaneous.
(iii) Being versatile it has a large number of users at different voltage classes and use patterns resulting in different tariffs for each class of customers. In India the tariff is essentially a political decision.

Enron misled us - Credit rating agencies

Sunday, 07 September 2008 11:45 News

Officials of Wall Street credit-rating agencies told Congress that Enron executives misled them about partnerships used to conceal massive debt.

Senators criticised the agencies for not more closely questioning Enron's finances.

Two of the officials said on Wednesday that Enron's former chairman, Kenn...

A CGT Appeal on Energy

Sunday, 07 September 2008 11:44 administrator

Just as air and water are essential for all aspects of life, so is energy. This is universally acknowledged. That is why energy should be a fundamental right for everyone - the right to have adequate sources of energy throughout one's life. This also involves a duty of guarantee enough high quality ...

Globalisation without schools & hospitals regrettable

Sunday, 07 September 2008 11:41 Nobel laureate Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen opined to the media that India and Pakistan has neglected education, health care and land reforms in a "truly regrettable way." There fore, when they suddenly open up their economies, a "lot of people" are not being able to compete in the global world.

"Problems arise when people in count...

COMPUTERS - new tool in the hands of 'knowledge workers'

Sunday, 07 September 2008 11:38 Prof. V.K. Damodaran

(Edited version of talk at the meeting of the Officers' Association of KSEB at Thiruvananthapuram on 12.5.1992)
The modern computers, no doubt, are in the centre stage of technological change. While computers have grown in their capacity to perform and liberate the lime of the workers, as also in inc...

Time To Choose

Sunday, 07 September 2008 11:37 administrator

(Paper presented in the Seminar on Power Development and Environmental Protection Conducted on 10.8.91 at Trivandrum in connection with the Annual General Body Meeting of the Association)
Environment is a global issue today and environmental protection a global concern. Man reacts to his environment...

Impact of computers in society

Sunday, 07 September 2008 11:31 Dr. K.P. MAMMOOTTY

Dr. K.P. MAMMOOTTY, Director, LBS Centre for Science & Technology , Trivandrum,(Paper presented at the inaugural function of 'Computer and Power System Study Centre' of KSEB Officers Association)
The mechanisation was basically responsible for the first industrial revolution. The second industrial re...

Resolution adopted on Mega and Ultra Mega Power policies

Wednesday, 12 September 2007 08:44 EEFI

Those thermal stations which are of and above 1000 MW capacity and hydel stations of and above 500 MW capacities are designated as Mega power projects (MPPs) by MOP and the following concessions are offered to the projects among other things:
· No customs duty for imports
· Government of India will di...

Reject the IIPA report on impact of restructuring of the State Electricity Board

Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:00 administrator

The study group appointed by the Indian Institute of Public Administration to study “the impact of restructuring of the State Electricity Board” has submitted their report to the Government. The report is on the expected lines as well as meeting the guidelines of World Bank Report on ‘Indian Pow...

Indian Electricity Act-2003 A legislation to invite the power sector disarray to dangerous levels

Friday, 20 October 2006 00:00 BS Meel

The purpose of the Electricity Billl-2001 is to deregulate Indian Power Industry and finally hand over the system to private operators for making profit. This measure will put the power sector in disarray and the result would be power cost will be raised to unaffordable levels and power crisis will ...

Electricity Act - 2003 - Questionable Wisdom

Wednesday, 18 October 2006 00:00 Madhav Godbole

When the bill which was in due course enacted as the Electricity Act, 2003 was under consideration of the standing committee of parliament, a number of issues which deserved closer examination had been highlighted. Several of these issues remain unattended. The Act, which is a halfway house, also ra...

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