Associate Professor, Department of Commerce, Nari Shiksha Niketan Post Graduate College, University of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Online published on 9 August, 2013.
The Indian power sector has been facing serious functional problems during the past few decades. In order to re-vitalize the sector and to improve its techno-economic performance, Government of India has initiated restructuring process in 1991. This paper reviews the performance of the Indian power sector in the last decade (1991–2001), while undergoing the restructuring process. In this paper we will focus on the strengthening of power demand and supply situation in Uttar Pradesh with reference to the change in power demand and supply over on all India and also make a comparative assessment with Rajasthan as the neighboring state witnessing to power sector reform implementation. The study explore that Uttar Pradesh demonstrated outstanding performance in demand-supply gap management.
Power Sector, Reforms, Pre and Post, Demand-Supply Gap
