Losses in transmission, distribution have to be cut

With one-third of power lost to pilferage and inefficient networks, the govt is desperate to plug the leakage
India’s minister of state for power, Bharatsinh Solanki, is in awe of South Korea. The reason for his admiration—while being as import-reliant as India for meeting its energy needs, South Korea has been able to bring down its power transmission and distribution losses to 4%. That’s astonishingly low compared with India’s 34%.