Lok Sabha Question No. 2632 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-12-01
Subject: T&D Losses
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: VISHNU DAYAL RAM

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2632 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.12.2016

## T&D LOSSES

2632. SHRI VISHNU DAYAL RAM:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

(a) whether  DISCOMS  in  various  States  are  continuously  incurring losses year after year, if so, the details thereof and the factors responsible therefor;

(b) the names of the States which have been effectively implementing power reforms in the country;

(c) the details of transmission and distribution losses in those States;

(d) whether T & D losses have not come down in spite of reforms; and

(e) if  so,  the  details thereof and the steps being taken/proposed to be taken to reduce T&D losses?

## A N S W E R

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

( SHRI  PIYUSH GOYAL )

(a) : As per 'Report on Performance of State Power Utilities', made by Power Finance Corporation (PFC) Ltd., the aggregate losses of utilities selling power directly to consumers for the years 2012-13 to 2014-15 is furnished below:

|                                                        | 2012-13   | 2013-14   | 2014-15   |
|--------------------------------------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| Profit/(Loss) on subsidy received basis (Rs. in crore) | (71,621)  | (67,336)  | (58,275)  |

The state-wise and utility-wise details are given at Annex-I.

..........2.

Losses are mainly due to Technical and Commercial reasons. The technical losses are due to energy dissipated in the conductors and equipment  used  for  transmission, transformation and  distribution of power.  Commercial  losses  are  on  account  of  energy  consumed  but revenue not realized which is mainly due to pilferage by hooking of lines, bypassing  the  meters,  defective  meters,  errors  in  meter  reading  and billing, estimating un-metered supply of electricity and non-recovery of the billed amount etc.

(b) : Names of the States which have implemented power reforms in the country after the Electricity Act, 2003 are given in Annex-II.

Further, as on 22.11.2016, the States of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur,  Madhya  Pradesh,  Maharashtra  and  Puducherry  have  signed Memorandum of  Understanding  under  Ujwal  DISCOM  Assurance  Yojana (UDAY)  with  an  objective  of  operational  and  financial  turnaround  of DISCOMs.

(c)  to (e) : The overall Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses for utilities selling power directly to consumers for the years 201213  to  2014-15  including  Transmission  &  Distribution  losses  is  as  given below:

|               |   2012-13 |   2013-14 |   2014-15 |
|---------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
| AT&C Loss (%) |     25.48 |     22.58 |     24.62 |

The state-wise and utility-wise details are given at Annex-III.

The responsibility for reduction of AT&C  losses in the Distribution network is primarily with the Discoms and power departments/utilities. However, to facilitate the reduction of AT&C losses and to improve power distribution system, the Government has launched various  programmes/schemes  such  as  Integrated  Power  Development Scheme  (IPDS),  Deen  Dayal  Upadhyaya  Gram  Jyoti  Yojana  (DDUGJY), National  Electricity  Fund  (NEF)  and  Ujwal  DISCOM  Assurance  Yojana (UDAY).

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