Kerala State Electricity Board Engineers' Association
Hydel Bullet
May 2013
May 20131162 DownloadsIt is a fact known to everyone that the widening revenue deficit in Board is due to the increasing component of power purchase cost. The quantum of power purchase increases due to continuous rise in demand for energy @ 8% per annum whereas there is no corresponding incremental rise in internal generation. Download…
April 2013
April 20131957 DownloadsIn the minds of many Engineers of the erstwhile Travancore Cochin Electricity Department, there was a desire to form an Association, to bring them together for better intimacy and fellow feeling. Thus the Engineers in a meeting held on 19th April 1953 evening at Power House premises, Thiruvananthapuram elected an dhoc committee to…
March 2013
March 20131212 DownloadsThe ‘integrated ratings’ are on annualised basis and spread from A+ to C. A highly rated distributor will be eligible for funds from State-owned banks and other financial institutions at a lower rate of interest. The system has been instituted at a time when the Government planned to bail out debt-laden power distributors…
February 2013
February 20131132 DownloadsWe had clearly made known in writing our apprehensions about the workability of the proposed pension fund and the danger of trifurcation hidden in the transfer scheme. It was clearly pointed out with material evidence that although the Board is corporatized, it is still possible to continue the present practice of giving statutory…
January 2013
January 20131433 DownloadsOne of the issues commonly observed in transfers in Board is the shielding from transfer garnered by a minority group citing expertise in some field. But in reality we feel that since all the functions in KSEB are being handled by a team, nobody is indispensable for any post and the transfer of…
December 2011
December 20111380 DownloadsThe Mullaperiyar Dam issue has been lingering the Kerala & Tamil Nadu politics for many long years. This dam was constructed during 1886-1895 using old time construction materials – rubble masonry in lime surkhi mortar as shell of the upstream and downstream side filled with lime surkhi concrete as inner core. Later, in an effort to strengthen…
December 2012
December 20121244 DownloadsEnergy crisis and consequent financial crunch in the Board is not an overnight development and is well documented in numerous records available in the institution. Disharmony in the consumer growth and their consumption with the sluggish or rather stagnant capacity addition has already showed its adverse effects and will eventually snowball into a…
November 2012
November 20121212 DownloadsWith the highest level of dependency of Kerala grid to the southern and national grid, the widening gap between availability and demand in the Indian Power Sector is an area of concern. At present this issue is further aggravated with corridor availability problems and coal availability issues. Download Now!
October 2012
October 20121003 DownloadsIt is well known to all that no works are started in transmission without observing the procedures and formalities. Work bills are prepared, measured, verified and check measured at various levels before forwarding to accounts branch at ARU. Further, technical audit and financial audit are conducted by the concerned teams at ARU and…
September 2012
September 20121194 DownloadsThe approved bailout scheme is formulated based on the report of an expert committee headed by Sri. B K Chaturvedi, Member (Energy) Planning Commission. The committee has come up with various suggestions and some of them would be mandatory in nature. The aim is to make Discoms to take steps for improving their…