Two decades of power sector reforms in India has significantly altered its structural landscape in favour of greater private sector participation, supply diversification, unbundling and corporatization. The reform interventions in the country were designed to enable the state owned utilities to overcome specific operational and systemic challenges within the power system and improve the development pace and efficiency in generation, transmission and distribution. Today most states in India have embarked on this reform journey and find themselves at different stages within the larger reform process.
This report attempts to capture the impact that the reform process has had on the performance of the power sector in the northern region, the largest of the four geographical zones in India. The report presents detailed statistical updates on key parameters of relevance to the assessment of the power sector in each state. Eight states namely Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Delhii and one union territory i.e. Chandigarh, are covered in the report. The report is structured in two parts. The first part makes a detailed state-wise assessment of key power sector trends, while the second part attempts to present a comparative picture of trends across states in the region.