Power Situations Facts and Solutions: Naked truth/Blatant Lie

From 19th feb Financial express:

Govt wants to clear its face on load shedding for which it is completely responsible. Under the head of Measures for reducing power distribution losses it says that in the coming 5 years 14254 crores would be spent to improve the capacity of distribution system: what does this means? Cant government have outcome based targets like improving the efficiency by certain percentage rather than outlay based targets. I would like to ask our honourable PM/FM why still this kind of "irresponsible targets are allowed". It further says that certain portion of this cost is already been completed what does this mean to public? how to verify what has been done and what is left?
It says last year we successfully cut the losses by 3.25%? 3.25% of what? It says above programs( which are not mentioned just referred as 22 new schemes) would cut the losses even further!!! Are we fool to allot money for "would cut the losses even further".
It say we have not been smugly idle; I don't know what is the new definition of being Idle? Will dabhol ever get solved?
It sites tata power 500MW shutdown for annual maintenance as one of the reason for acute shortage/load shedding: why we are paying so much of money and benefits to this politicians if they can not even plan for such regular events?

Lastly still the advertisement has courage to say that the efforts to make power available are going on "Full steam ahead". Only time can prove that how blatant eye wash this is.

Dreams unlimited Zero Output

Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) intends to set up 16,900 MW of extra nuclear capacity at an investment of Rs 1,01,400 crore ($23.03 billion) during the 11th Plan (2007-2012).
Today's ET news. This is 100th time that NPCIl has revisited their plans and each time plans gets bigger and bigger. But where is the fuel to run such huge capacity. Installed capacity of approx 3500Mwe as on today is no were near its 80% capacity factor because of unavailability of fuel. Such huge investments without ensuring fuel supply will be as good as throwing good money behind bad money.

Call them breeder , fast breeder or advanced PHWR , nothing is proven yet as good as building castles in air.

With such ambitious plans of growth what about the Human Resource development. Engineers are leaving the organisation like any thing.

Four reactors are under construction two units at kaiga and two at Rajsthan where from the fuel will come if the existing reactors requirements are not fed completely.

think...think....

PSU's dilemma

Today reading an article in ET about ONGC's CMD being declared not fit memorised me the older days of my working in one of the PSU of Department of Atomic Energy. Though at that time the victim post was station level post rather than CMD's level post. I doubt how PSU's will even catch up with private sector if things will go like this. We (When part of an PSU) still say we have created record of achieving something that was never achieved but deep down my heart i know how much early that could have been achieved( so actually we were late). Wise people suggest me "work in the system work for the system". But which "system". System should be System at least. Coming back to ONGC's CMD news the vaccum created gives very bad signal not only the present employees in the organisation but also future aspirants. I being pursuing Management Program at one of the premier B school can very well gauge mood among the prospective employees, they are not at all looking towards PSU. PSU dont get takers at B schools. How long PSU's will survive with out infusion of young and managerial talent. On the other hand see how B school aspirants are lapping job offers from Reliance, Aditya Birla Group , Essar group, Tata Group, Jindal group etc. There is no concept of succession planning at PSU because till the time I am at top I will keep on trying to extend my tenure as long as possible. I dint see any wrong in extension per se if they are backed by performance rather Previous ONGC's CMD exit was premature by any standard he could very well have been given extension but then extension has to be decided based on meritocracy and not based on how many times you have raised voiced against. With my limited experience both in PSU and MNC I could really figure out the difference at least in terms of succession planning. With PSU succession planning is an alien concept but this is very well planned in MNC. Even the likes of GE's Jack welch used to have succession plan in line and proper grooming is carried out not for months but for years. Many Indian conglomerates have started succession planning these day. Leadership programmes are nuances of succession planning only. Hope things will improve or at least so called systems of inefficiency will see the sun of privatisation.