Kerala State Electricity Board Engineers' Association
Hydel Bullet
December 2012
December 2012978 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 2012982 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 2012822 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 2012980 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…
August 2012
August 2012902 DownloadsThe revised estimates for the year 2011-12 leave a revenue deficit of Rs 2118.48 Crore and the estimate for the year 2012-13 projects a revenue deficit of Rs 3240.25 Crore. All power purchase costs need to be considered legitimate unless it is established that the merit order principle has been violated or power…
July 2012
July 2012756 DownloadsThe cost of thermal power purchase consisted 38 to 44 % of total Aggregate Revenue Requirement (ARR) in the three years from 2005 to 2008, which suddenly jumped to 63% of ARR during the year 2008-09. The countrywide increase in demand to cater to the 8%-plus growth trajectory and the inadequate capacity addition…
June 2012
June 2012966 DownloadsAssociations on 15/9/2009, it was disclosed that employee liabilities in respect of both pension and provident fund remain unfunded over the years in KSEB. However provident fund remains accounted, while pension fund remains both unfunded & unaccounted! It was also admitted that before revesting the assets and liabilities in the new company, both…
May 2012
May 2012772 DownloadsAssociations on 15/9/2009, it was disclosed that employee liabilities in respect of both pension and provident fund remain unfunded over the years in KSEB. However provident fund remains accounted, while pension fund remains both unfunded & unaccounted! It was also admitted that before revesting the assets and liabilities in the new company, both…
April 2012
April 2012905 DownloadsWhen Kerala State Electricity Board was constituted under Section 5 of Indian Electricity Supply Act on April 1st, 1957 we had a Generation capacity of around 108 MW; scarcity of electricity was not at all an issue then. From thereon, the need for electricity gradually grew and in the present day lifestyle, electricity is as essential as…
February 2012
February 20121169 DownloadsMinister of the State, Shri Pattom Thanupillai, he had not declared then that KSEB Engineers’ Association will function as a Political Outfit. Later on, many prominent personalities from political, cultural, social, judicial, scientific and Engineering fields participated in the various activities and events organized by the Association all these years. When the veteran leader Shri M.N. Govindan Nair was the Electricity Minister, the Association…