Few state governments have fully realised the consequences of the disastrous years of power sector reforms.
Public utilities are a natural monopoly.
It is impractical to allow the consumer to choose the wire that connects electricity to his house. That s why even private utility companies like TEC and BSES enjoy virtual monopolies. Not much really. Less than 27 per cent of the total available generation capacity actually flows in as revenue. Yet the government does not seem to realise that large scale capacity addition is not as important as properly utilising the capacity that the country has.