Lok Sabha Question No. 3398 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-15
Subject: T&D Losses of Power
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: VINOD KUMAR BOIANAPALLI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3398 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15.03.2018

## T&D LOSSES OF POWER

3398. SHRI B. VINOD KUMAR:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  any  data  on  the  transmission  and distribution losses at the national level, if so, the details thereof;

(b) whether the Government is taking any steps to fight power theft and other factors which lead to losses; and

- (c) if so, the details thereof?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR POWER AND NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY

( SHRI  R. K. SINGH )

(a) to (c) : The  details  State-wise  Transmission  and  Distribution  (T&D) losses data are furnished at Annexure. The Government of India monitors Aggregate Technical & Commercial  (AT&C)  losses of State  Power Distribution  Utilities  which  include  the  losses  on  account  of  theft  also. There are enabling punitive provisions against power  theft in the Electricity  Act,  2003.  Ministry  of  Power  has  made  several  interventions such  as  IT  enablement  of  distribution  infrastructure,  feeder  metering, feeder  segregation  and  monitoring  of  AT&C  loss  trajectories  through various schemes such as Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), Deendayal  Upadhyaya  Gram  Jyoti  Yojana  (DDUGJY)  and  Ujwal  DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) to enable States to improve their systems so that energy loss including those due to theft are reduced.

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## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (c) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.    3398  TO  BE  ANSWERED  IN  THE  LOK  SABHA  ON 15.03.2018.

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## STATE-WISE TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION LOSSES FOR THE YEAR 2015-16

| State/UT          |   T&D Loss, % |
|-------------------|---------------|
| Bihar             |         42.82 |
| Jharkhand         |         16.99 |
| Odisha            |         39.1  |
| Sikkim            |         26.52 |
| West Bengal       |         22.16 |
| Arunachal Pradesh |         50.6  |
| Assam             |         25.2  |
| Manipur           |         44.45 |
| Meghalaya         |         32.32 |
| Mizoram           |         36.11 |
| Nagaland          |         29.89 |
| Tripura           |         30.56 |
| Delhi             |         19.58 |
| Haryana           |         31.61 |
| Himachal Pradesh  |         18.75 |
| Jammu & Kashmir   |         50.06 |
| Punjab            |         18.55 |
| Rajasthan         |         29.13 |
| Uttar Pradesh     |         24.51 |
| Uttarakhand       |         25.6  |
| Andhra Pradesh    |         16.16 |
| Karnataka         |         10.51 |
| Kerala            |         11.58 |
| Puducherry        |         14.01 |
| Tamil Nadu        |         10.85 |
| Telangana         |         16.48 |
| Chhattisgarh      |         30.78 |
| Goa               |         18.04 |
| Gujarat           |         19.1  |
| Madhya Pradesh    |         28.61 |
| Maharashtra       |         19.89 |
| All India/Total   |         21.81 |

Source: CEA