What are current problems with development of Power sector in India?

Distribution losses is quite high while convrting to desired voltage conditions specially for domestic supply.

Better we should go for DC supply rather than AC. Yes it needs lot of investment but will help in reducing distribution loses tremendouusly.

Further, we see lot many time that street lights switch on during day time also. In this case automation will help us in reducing such losses due to ignorance and lack of awareness.

Subsidy is important as tool to reduce the financial burden from poor. But it has been used in past decades as tool to lure votes of poor by politicians who got the right to govern. the same continued government after government and the end of day SEBs have been a loss making machinery with no reserve or insufficient collection to pay for power purchased. the fear of no recovery on investment kept private sector away from Generation, transmission and Distribution.

Government's misconstrued policies:- It took long for the sector to come out of the grips of govt. monopoly. As things started to brighten up, government intrudes and create industrial unfriendly policies. Every time, a private power generation project take shape, first come the objections from environment ministry. Then comes the one sided government hikes on raw material pricing, not to mention the duties and taxes. 

Look what happened to Reliance Power project. According to CAIRN, with around $2 per unit, the industry can be profitable. RIL also agreed to supply gas to RNRL somewhere around that level. Then the govt. become spoil sport and doubled the price. This will not only kill the industry but also increase the burden of the common man as the price per unit of energy produced will steeply go up. 

Look at the Telecom Industry. From the pathetic DOT run business, private players have brought up the industry which benefitted the common man the most. Steps in the government and regulators, hiking up pricing of licenses and spectrum cost. Seeing 3G spectrum auction values, the regulator had suggested to link the pricing of already given 2G spectrum cost also at the 3G auction price. The industry is already struggling with price wars, and ban on import of cheap systems.

These are some  typical examples. Instead of giving subsidies in pricing of natural resources and duties and taxes on the produces to promote industry, the government acts the other way around and then shed crocodile tears of  slow industrial growth, high inflation, rural povery  etc,. etc,.   The stories are same in almost all sectors. Such Shylokian attitude of the authorities in every sphere, is sure to kill the few golden Geese we already have.

As the population increases the demand for power also increases. So there is no proper supply according to the demand, this is because of improper management of the resources. And now we are running short of resources........

So we should manage the power efficiently and make the best use of it......