The need for electricity is felt more now since it is a catalyst for economic growth. In fact, India can well become a world giant economy, if the electricity sector is efficient enough. The need for a good electricity system grew after the economic liberalization period of the 1990s. To become competitive internationally, we have to reduce our dependency on electricity for which the Indian government brought in a slew of measures. Against this backdrop, this book presents a panoramic view of India’s power sector and its reforms. The articles here are all about developments at the institutional and organizational level, and provide performance evaluation, and highlight issues and drawbacks and measures needed to make this sector more efficient. It will certainly be an eye-opener to utilities regulators, power sector managers, management teachers and students studying Indian power sector reforms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leena Mary Eapen
Leena Mary Eapen holds an MA in Economics from Madras Christian College. She has submitted her Ph.D dissertation on "Power Sector Reforms in India: A Study of Institutions and Organisational Behaviour" at Madras School of Economics, Chennai. Her areas of specialisation are Energy Economics and Institutional Economics. Currently she is working in the areas of issues of restructuring/privatization of public sector undertakings particularly state electricity boards; issues related to implementation of economic reforms using principles of new institutional economics and political economy of reforms; public finance; and comparative aspects of India and China. She has five years of teaching experience and she has published research papers and popular articles in peer reviewed journals, edited books, Indian business magazines and financial dailies. She has also presented research papers in various national conferences. Currently, she is working as a Faculty Member-Consulting Editor at the IBS Research Center (IRC), Chennai focusing on the development of Professional Reference Books and teaching in the area of Economics.
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