All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has urged the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to shelve the proposal of unbundling of Power Development Department of state till the state assembly is formed as electricity is a concurrent subject.

AIPEF in its letter to J&K Governor  has mentioned that it would be incorrect to carry out drastic changes in the power development department  when the State assembly has not been formed. It would be against the constitution  to ignore the public opinion and opinion of electricity consumers in the matter of  privatizing the State Power Department.

The objective of combining generation, distribution and transmission under one integrated in one company is stated as a matter of policy for the States to adopt. The States are empowered and at liberty to re structure their respective power utilities so as to achieve the objective of integrated operation since electricity is a concurrent subject.

V K Gupta Spokesperson of AIPEF said that unbundling of distribution , transmission and generation is not mandatory as per Electricity Act 2003. Kerala and Himachal Pradesh have kept the integrated utility in the name of KSEB Ltd and HPSEB Ltd respectively.

Every state has one SLDC where the entire state is considered as one control area. This gives SLDC a clear advantage to manage load dispatch over the state as one entity. With one state Discom concept the state  hydro generation can be optimally dispatched by SLDC in the most economic and optimum manner.