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Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022
August 13 , 2022
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- The contentious Electricity Amendment Bill, 2022 was introduced in the Lok Sabha.
- It aimed at giving multiple players open access to distribution networks of power suppliers and also allowing consumers to choose any service provider.
- It also pushes state electricity regulatory commissions to take up timely revision of tariffs and catalyse competition in the retail power distribution sector, among other provisions.
- This comes amid a renewed debate on the freebie culture and the focus on the mounting dues of power distribution companies.
- The bill amends the Electricity Act, 2003.
- Discoms of three states- Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Telangana owed about 57 per cent of total dues to power generating companies.
- They followed by Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and the UTs of Jammu & Kashmir.
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