HPC on stressed power plants to meet stakeholders from procuring states

The committee has been tasked to look at reviving stressed power plants of APL, EPGL and CGPL

A three-member high powered committee (HPC) set up by the Gujarat government will look at reviving the stressed power plants in the state. The committee is set to hold a meeting in Delhi on Sunday with stakeholders from the procurer states. Apart from Gujarat, these procurer states include Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana.

Headed by former Supreme Court justice R K Agrawal, the committee has S S Mundra, former deputy governor of RBI, and Pramod Deo, former chairman of CERC as its members. The HPC is expected to meet representatives of state distribution companies that have signed power purchase agreements