Shri Indu Shekhar Jha presently CMD, Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) , has been appointed as Member of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) vide Order dated 4.1.2019.Mr. Jha is an electrical engineer from NIT, Jamshedpur and had been the Director (Projects) of the company since 2009. He was on Board of State Transmission utilities of Haryana & Madhya Pradesh, Governing Board Member of CPRI and Member of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Forest Management. He is also the member of several prestigious professional bodies including Institute of Engineers (India), Power Engineering Society of IEEE in USA and CIGRE, France.
About CERC:
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) had been established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Electricity Regulatory Commissions (ERC) Act, 1998. CERC is the Central Commission for the purposes of the Electricity Act, 2003 which has repealed the ERC Act, 1998. The Commission consists of a Chairperson and four other Members including Chairperson, Central Electricity Authority who is the ex-officio Member of the Commission.
Major functions of CERC under the Act, inter-alia, are :
- to regulate the tariff of generating companies owned or controlled by the Central Government,
- to regulate the tariff of other generating companies having a composite scheme for generation and sale of electricity in more than one State,
- to regulate the inter-State transmission of electricity and to determine tariff for such transmission of electricity, etc.
Indian Bureaucracy Dot Com wishes Shri Indu Shekhar Jha the very best.