The gas-coal riddle

Former coal secretary Anil Kumar Jain's book makes a strong case for using coal until renewable energy becomes ubiquitous in India

Natural Gas in India: Challenges and Opportunities

Author: Anil Kumar Jain

Publisher: CRC Press

Pages: 176

Price: Rs 8,886

First off, Anil Kumar Jain is clear that the Kirit Parikh committee on gas prices should have set a time frame of less than five years to migrate to free prices. “I realise, with the current global market in energy prices on fire, there’s difficulty in estimating when normalcy will return but still it could have been shorter,” he said in a recent meeting with this reviewer.

Dr Jain should know. The author of Natural Gas in India: Challenges and Opportunities, has recently retired as secretary, Ministry