India Budget 2026: Power Minister Manohar Lal announced that amendments to the Electricity Act are slated for introduction in the upcoming ...

Government updates reveal progress in road accident victim treatment, with many cases eligible. Highway project awards have slowed due to s...

The government is proposing significant amendments to the Electricity Act, aiming to introduce cost-reflective tariffs and phase out cross-...

The Power Ministry has unveiled a draft bill to reform India's electricity sector. Key proposals include empowering state regulators to rev...

The minister informed the House that the total outstanding dues of the states, which were at Rs 1,37,949 crore as on June 3, 2022, have bee...

The Bill proposes radical changes in the power distribution sector, the weakest link in the electricity chain, by enabling multiple distrib...

The AIPEF has demanded that the bill be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for wider consultation in a letter to Pr...

Sources in the government said the Bill is under consideration by the Prime Minister's Office and is unlikely to be taken up by the Cabinet...

It proposes to make consumers with 100 kW load, covering MSMEs and commercial complexes, eligible to take power through green energy open a...

The ministry has circulated the "Draft Electricity (promoting renewable energy through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021," an official ...

The power ministry will soon circulate a draft bill proposing amendments in the Electricity Act to omit the word ‘distribution licensee’ to...

The minister said the Centre withstood pressure from states to get all discoms to open bank guarantees against power purchases.

The govt seeks to levy hefty fines on power distribution companies for load shedding and make provisions for direct subsidy transfers by st...

Government plans to table a bill in the winter session of Parliament to give electricity consumers the freedom to choose the supplier.

Noting that India is a energy-starved nation, he termed the proposal of reducing price of power through competition as "impractical".

The proposal is similar to mobile number portability where consumers can switch to a telecom operator of their choice.

The Power Ministry has set up a panel to look into various proposals including introduction of appraisal system for central and state elect...