Soon users can choose power discom, says Goyal Updated: Dec 6, 2014 10:12 PM , By Yuthika Bhargava Minister for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal. Photo: Sandeep Saxena The government will allow competition without raising tariff With the government planning to bring in a series of amendments to the Electricity Act, 2003, consumers will soon get the choice of selecting their power supply company. Speaking at a CII event, Minister for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal said reforms were being planned for the distribution sector and provision allowing the end-user to choose its distribution company was in the works. The government is working on provisions, whereby the entire discom set up would be unbundled. While there would be a government distributor of power to ensure that power was provided to the weaker section of the society, competition will be introduced and the private sector role in the sector would be expanded. The government would allow competition without
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