Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Jamshedpur, Nov. 30: Industrial units are now facing a fresh challenge. The fixed power tariff plan of the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) is adding to their heavy burden of losses. The fall in the demand of their products has either limited production or led industrial units of the Adityapur …
The Association of Engineers, Assam State Electricity Board (AoE, ASEB) has vehemently opposed the decision of the State Government for handing over the urban distribution circles to the private sector under a franchisee programme. It has described the decision as the product of a
Having cried foul over exclusion from the earlier supply order for power saver CFL bulbs, the HPL Socomec has finally bagged a contract for supply of 10 lakh bulbs to the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board (HPSEB) for implementation of the Atal Bijli Bachat Yojna. The HPSEB today gave the …
Independent regulatory agencies have become an important part of the governance landscape in India and elsewhere. Some regulators have achieved useful outcomes. However, the creation of independent sectoral regulators in India has not been accompanied by critical reflection on their role, or attention to the political, legal, and institutional contexts …
Employees of the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam today restored the power supply to the district after the police registered a case against 18 villagers of Bilaspur, who had allegedly beaten up the SDO and caused injuries to an employee of the local substation. However, employees of the electricity department …
A series of hydropower projects on the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda may reduce the Ganga to a trickle. But project proponents will still be making money. Why project developers aren
Patiala : More than 13,000 farmers who had applied for power connections for tube wells in the general category till March 1990 may be given connections by the end of March next by the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB). The farmers had applied for connections and had also got test …
Urgent need to re-examine quality assurance of dams in the northeast On May 10, the Sangai Express, a local daily from Imphal, reported that parts of the Thoubal multipurpose project had developed cracks. Taking note of the apparent lack of quality construction, Thounaojam Shyamkumar, deputy speaker in the state assembly, …
The cabinet on Tuesday approved the action plans presented by subsequent companies of Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board for 11th Five-Year Plan 2007-12. These include division of feeders and scheme regarding agricultural pumps. The action plan of Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company, Jabalpur is to the tune of Rs 5200 …
Varinder Singh Tribune News Service Patiala, July 24 Prolonged power cuts have made life of urban and rural people miserable and the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has been blaming shutting down of three National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plants for bad power position in the state. The PSEB has …
Calcutta, July 24: The power situation in the city and the districts worsened today with the combined shortfall in the evening peak hours shooting up to 975MW. A shortage of 225MW in the city caused power cuts for two to three hours. The districts endured more with seven to eight …
AMIT GUPTA Ranchi, July 20: Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) owes Rs 800 crore to Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) and is the only defaulter for the past couple of years. Top government sources said the matter was strongly raised during the July 18 review meeting of DVC by a consultative …
Govt fails to pay subsidy to PSEB The Punjab government has failed to comply with the directive of the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) to pay subsidy on account of free power to agricultural pump sets in instalments in advance at the beginning of each quarter. The commission in …
The excessive commercialisation of agriculture in Punjab is well known but just how much rent-seeking is going on and with what implications, is not so well known. The recent scheme of the PSEB called the
Members and activists of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur) staged a dharna in front of the office of deputy chief engineer, Sangrur distribution circle of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), here today to compel the authorities to accept their demands, especially the release of the tube well connections under …
Chairman of the PSEB Y.S. Ratra has said the Board has decided to ban transfers of all categories of officers and employees from July 15 to October 31 to ensure minimum disturbance in the offices during the on-going paddy season. Ratra has warned the delinquents of severe departmental action for …
