Bihar’s power woes: enough of promises, the public wants to see the roadmap and schedules now! Patna: the latest statement from Energy minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav aims to assure that the worst in power sector in Bihar was over and from 2012 things would look up. But this is a claim to be substantiated and not to be taken as face value. Especially so since the minister in his assembly speech also told the members ‘Power sector is not an area where you get immediate results. But from the next year the efforts made by us would begin to show’. The energy minister forgot to mention another... 

Government and ADB sign $132 million agreement : an end to Bihar’s power problems by 2015? New Delhi: according to a press release from the Ministry of Finance, the Government of India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday signed a $132 million loan agreement for strengthening Bihar’s power sector. The project is expected to be completed by 31st December 2015. It will provide/transmit additional 472,579 megawatt-hours (MWh) to consumers annually by the end of 2015 and reduce system losses by 3% by 2016 in the seven districts of Bihar. The major portion of the ADB loan ($130.3 million)...