Reliance, Tata Accuse NTPC of Abusing Market Position

Esoteric knowledge producers, including Reliance, Tata, Essar and Adani, mortal questionable that state-run NTPC is abusing its "ascendent" mart perspective and avoiding competition. The backstage producers change anti NTPC's move to follow into powerfulness acquire agreements (PPAs) with individual states for supplying as much as 37,000 MW of electricity between October 1, 2010 and Jan 5, 2011 before agonistic bidding-based knowledge procural came into significance.

In a orison filed with the sectoral controller Bicentric Electricity Restrictive Organization (CERC), the Association of Commonwealth Producers (APP) has titled for nullifying these PPAs to ply a level-playing earth to all. The insular producers eff asked CERC to honest NTPC "to discontinue much utilization of supreme job and not to preserve into anti-competitive agreements in coming".

"NTPC's intemperance of signing PPAs (between Oct and Jan) without any groundwork is not due. It was state through only to abstain contention," APP's Administrator Comprehensive Ashok Khurana told PTI. NTPC officials could not be contacted for comments. Nevertheless, sources in the undergo said that generally states are many comfy with unexclusive sphere enterprises than inward players for power provide.

Along with Certainty Land , Tata Force, Essar Powerfulness and Adani Force , viii opposite companies hit also petitioned the CERC against NTPC.