Power Sector in India

Malathi Renati (head of policy school, Takshashila Institution) is in conversation with Jaydeep Daripa, Debashree Chatterjee, and Avantika Srivastava, all current students of Takshashila's 48 week Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy, where they share their insights on the state of affairs in India's Power Sector. They explore market structures & failures, government interventions via tariff control and cross-subsidies, its disproportionate role in power purchase agreements between Gencos and DISCOMs, its control of coal production and transport freight controls, etc. Some of the unintended consequences as a result and we delve into some known solutions to the multiple-faceted issues faced by the power sector. Reading: Power Sector in India