NEW DELHI: The power ministry has warned six big defaulting states to clear dues of generation companies (gencos) and Coal India Ltd (CIL) or lose access to electricity as the outstanding amounts were causing supply side strains.
In separate letters to chief secretaries of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra Tamil Nadu and Jammu & Kashmir, power secretary Alok Kumar said the piling dues because of an “unprecedented inability” of their state distribution utilities (discoms) was threatening the reliability of power supply.
