ऊर्जा क्षेत्र में निजी एकाधिकार पर जोर देती केंद्र सरकार

एनर्जी सेक्टर स्निपेट- अक्टूबर 2020 पावर सेक्टर निजीकरण के विरोध पर उत्तर प्रदेश मे एक अस्थाई सफलता अप्रैल 2020 से, बिजली संशोधन विधेयक 2020 के प्रस्तावित मसौदे के खिलाफ बिजली क्षेत्र की ट्रेड यूनियन...

Read more November 10, 2020 at 2:10 pm Rajesh Kumar

Centre Pushing for Private Monopoly in the Energy Sector

Snippets from Energy Sector– October 2020 Temporary success resisting privatisation of power in Uttar Pradesh Since April 2020, power sector trade unions have been protesting across the country against the proposed draft of Electricity...

Read more November 6, 2020 at 1:42 pm Rajesh Kumar

Energy Conundrums in the Post-Covid Indian Economy: Is Haphazard Installation of Renewable Energy the Real Alternative?

The COVID -19 crisis has been largely held responsible for the setbacks in the renewable energy sector in the country since the beginning of the year. However, a new briefing note of IEEFA published...

Read more September 26, 2020 at 2:15 pm Aswathi A Nair

Social Ownership of Renewable Energy: Crisis and Prospects in the African Context

As geopolitical conflicts, climate change and more recently the over arching pandemic necessitates a global consensus on the need to radically reform our economic models, food systems and health care practices, it also becomes...

Read more September 7, 2020 at 11:55 am Aswathi Nair

Draft power bill promotes privatisation, ‘impedes’ social, environmental safeguards

In an appeal to the chairperson, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy, and its members, 90 civil society group have sought cancellation of the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, proposed by the...

Read more September 4, 2020 at 1:12 pm CFA

Energy finance updates- August 2020

In the month of August, many deals and decisions were made in the energy sector by the Ministry of Power despite the impacts of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown on the power sector....

Read more August 31, 2020 at 2:36 pm Rajesh Kumar

सस्ती सरकारी बिजली पर भारी मंहगी निजी बिजली

आम लोगों के वोट से सत्ता पर काबिज होन वाली सरकारें, हर तरह की लाज शर्म को तिलांजलि देकर बेशर्मी से पूॅजी और उधोंगों के हित मे खंडी हो गई है। मध्यप्रदेश मे इसकी...

Read more July 7, 2020 at 2:31 pm Rajesh Kumar

Hindi -Comments and Objections of Civil Society Groups and members on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020

सेवा श्री आर के सिंह राज्य मंत्री-बिजली और नई और नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा श्रम शक्ति भवन, भारत सरकार नई दिल्ली -110001 ...

Videos: Activists speak strongly against Draconian Draft of Electricity Amendment Bill 2020

Videos Rajkumar Sinha, (Bargi Bandh Evam Visthapit Sangh & NAPM Madhya Pradesh) Ashok Srimali, (General Secretary of Mines, Mineral & People, Gujarat). Praful Samantra, (Lok Shakti Abhiyan & NAPM Odisha). Punit Minz, (Johar Unorganized...

सस्ती सरकारी बिजली होने के बावजूद महंगी निजी बिजली खरीद रही सरकार

देश और दुनिया कोरोनावायरस महामारी के इस सकंट को फैलने से बचाने मे लगे है। लाखों मजदूर भुखे और प्यासे पैदल आपने गाँवों की और लौट रहे है। यह कहना भी असंगत नहीं होगा...

Read more June 17, 2020 at 5:54 pm Rajesh Kumar

‘सरकार’ को चाहिए महंगी बिजली !

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ऊर्जा संवाद का विशेष अकं: सरकार द्धारा प्रस्तावित विद्युत अधिनियम 2020 बिजली क्षेत्र के निजीकरण पर जोर देता

टैरिफ की दर बढ़ेगी, जिसे फिर जबरन उपभोगताओं से वसूला जायेगा यह विधेयक में एक असफल सार्वजनिक-निजी साझेदारी (पी.पी.पी.) मॉडल का प्रस्ताव विवादस्पद विद्युत(संशोधन) विधेयक, 2020 की निंदा करते हुए संयुक्त बयान कड़े संघर्ष...

Submission to the Ministry of Power regarding the financial viability related issues for the proposed Etalin Hydro Electric Project (EHEP)

The Jindal Power owned Etalin Hydro Project, in Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh which has been saddled with social and environmental impacts, was in news recently. A financial analysis carried out by Ashwini Chitnis & Shripad...

Read more June 9, 2020 at 6:09 pm Ashwini Chitnis and Shripad Dharmadhikary

Proposed electricity Bill to blatantly promote industry profit, ‘ignores’ consumers

Counterview Desk As many as 90 civil society groups and member have strongly objected to comments and objections on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020, stating it “such comprehensive reform of a major law...

Comments and Objections of Civil Society Groups & Members on the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020

To Shri R K Singh Minister of State – IC (Power and New & Renewable Energy) Shram Shakti Bhawan, Government of India New Delhi-110001 ...