Govt suggests DVB restructuring
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15/01/1999
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Statesman (New Delhi)
In an ambitious reforms package to be executed over five years, the Delhi Government's strategy paper today recommended restructuring the Delhi Vidyut Board into smaller companies and establishing the statutory regulatory commission to "depoliticise" the process of power tariff adjustment. Describing the transmission and distribution losses "on account of theft and dacoity" touching a peak of 51.3 per cent in August 1998 and the financial position of DVB "precarious", the process of power tariff adjustment.