Earning Margins
The thumb rule in J&K is that intervention in the policy framework triggers pressures from vested interests within and outside the government. Sometimes, they...
Negotiating Power
Public discourse over J&K’s energy crisis has brought NHPC into sharp focus. A cabinet sub-committee, that revisited the history of the company’s ‘exploitative’ relationship...
Hitting The Roof
After hiking the power tariff by 139 per cent in the last five years, the PDD has proposed to raise tariffs by 13 to...
Powerless Linemen
The PDD has for long been hiring men on daily wages for the risky maintenance work on electricity transmission lines. Not provided with the...
Over to PDC
As the NHPC's questionable acquisitions became the barking headlines in Kashmir, setting up a cabinet sub-committee was the natural response from the government. It...
Power Breakdown
A young boy is murdered simply for being at the wrong place at the wrong time—at a protest for electricity. But his death unearths...
Blame Game
The recurring energy crisis in Kashmir during the peak winter season has once again bought the state Power Development Department in the lime...
The Transformer
He always dreamed of having his own independent business. Today, Nisar Baba’s manufacturing unit has developed into an award-winning company with uncompromising quality. Shams...
Re-energizing Energy Sector
For years people knew Shakeel Qalander as an entrepreneur. This year, his hunt to understand the basics of J&K government’s relationship with NHPC brought...
Power Reforms
Hydro power generation policy may see a positive shift soon, but some actors say the overall direction may end up being discriminatory against the...
Abc Of Power Distribution
Energy deficit, particularly electricity supply, has been a bane for the state government and the people. Part of the problem is mismanagement, inability to...
A Project On Trial
New Delhi and Islamabad claimed victory when the International Court of Arbitration (CoA) issued an interim order that permitted India to go ahead with...
Kishanganga: Chronology Of A Case (1)
This is how the case was built by India and Pakistan in the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague, Netherlands
May 17, 2010
Pakistan moves...
NHPC In Focus
India’s hydropower giant NHPC is again under spotlight. While the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) at the Hague has barred it to raise any...
Village of Linemen
By a strange confluence, this village in Baramulla has over decades given Kashmir hundreds of its linemen responsible for maintaining electricity supply lines in...
