Influence

What IPPAI put to Government.

Letters, submissions, workshops and the recommendations that followed, since the first conference in 1994.

• 2003The first Retreat closes with a round table designed to produce “concrete and comprehensive suggestions” for Government, as a concept paper.
• 5 Nov 2004Creating 100,000 Sustainable Electricity Utilities, presented at Vigyan Bhawan: 0.5 MW per Gram Panchayat, 125,000 MW in all.
• 13 Mar 2013Letter to R V Shahi, Convenor of the Advisory Group sub-committee on the Electricity Act and Tariff Policy: separate carriage from content.
• 25 Aug 2013Five suggestions from the Ministry of Power’s Sub-Group on Power Transmission, convened by Harry Dhaul, including a National Power Beltway and GNA.
• 27 Nov 2013Letter to the Minister of State for Power (I/C) on the proposed amendments to the Electricity Act 2003.
• 2013–14Hydro Purchase Obligations and a peaking-power policy; from the SAARC seminar, the recommendation of a SAARC Grid.
• 2015Thirty points for Budget 2015–16 from a consultation chaired by Prof S L Rao.
• Feb–Mar 2015Workshops on the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2014 in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore, compiled for the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy.
• 6 Nov 2025Workshop on the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025 at the Central Electricity Authority.