INLD leader asks Haryana CM to invoke Section 108 to halt parallel power licence
INLD leader Sampat Singh has urged the Haryana Chief Minister to intervene in the granting of a parallel power distribution license to Eleven Power Private Limited. Singh alleges the regulatory process was flawed and questions the financial viability of the project, while the state government maintains the regulator acted autonomously.
Why it matters
This highlights ongoing tensions regarding the privatization of public utilities and the potential for regulatory capture in state-level governance.
INLD leader asks Haryana CM to invoke Section 108 to halt parallel power licence GURUGRAM: Former Finance Minister and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) patron Sampat Singh on Thursday demanded that Chief Minister Nayab Saini invoke Section 108 of the Electricity Act, 2003, to issue a written policy directive halting the grant of parallel power distribution licence in the public interest. He described the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (HERC) decision to grant a licence to Eleven Power Private Limited as a “pre-planned, dictated assault engineered by the BJP governments at the State and Centre”. Accusing the regulator of abdicating its statutory duty and acting as a “rubber stamp of the State government”, Mr. Singh, at a press conference in Chandigarh, said the government was now hiding behind the regulator to push electricity distribution privatisation.
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