The Ministry of Power is an

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. The current Union Cabinet Minister is

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. The ministry is charged with overseeing

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production and infrastructure development, including generation, transmission, and delivery, as well as maintenance projects. The ministry acts as a liaison between the central government and

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electricity operations, as well as with the

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. The ministry also oversees

rural electrification Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. Rural communities are suffering from colossal market failures as the national grids fall short of their demand for electricity. As of 2017, over 1 billion ...

projects.

History

The Ministry of Power became a ministry on July 2, 1992 during the P. V. Narasimha Rao government. Prior to that time it had been a department (the Department of Power) in the Ministry of Power, Coal and Non-Conventional Energy Sources. That ministry was split into the Ministry of Power,

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, and Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (renamed the

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in 2006). In 2012, the Ministry of Power inaugurated the ''Smart Grid'' project in

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List of Power Ministers

List of Ministers of State

Central Public Sector Undertakings

National Thermal Power Corporation Limited NTPC Limited, formerly known as National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Power, Government of India which is engaged in generation of electricity and ...

* Power Grid Corporation of India *

North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) is a central public sector undertaking. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Power, Government of India. It was formed on 2 April 1976 to plan, investigate, design, construct, gen ...

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