Power Policies Need for a National Debate


Power Policies: Need for a National Debate Prabir Purkayastha Arun Ghosh For a healthy development of the power sector, the following objectives have to he met: minimising of investment costs to enable better utilisation of available resources; minimising of net outflow of resources, especially foreign exchange; minimising of costs of energy production to bring about economies in power supply and keep power tariffs at affordable levels without having to resort to heavy and unsustainable subsidisation; and maximising of security of power supply and its insulation from external and international developments.