India, Jan. 19 -- The Union government is revising the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025.

It aims to reform power distribution and improve financial discipline.

The Bill proposes competition in retail power supply, enhanced regulatory autonomy and subsidy rationalisation.

The Union government is recalibrating key provisions of the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025 after receiving extensive feedback from regulators, consumer groups and state governments, even as it signals intent to move ahead with legislation aimed at opening up power distribution and enforcing greater financial discipline among utilities.

Power Minister Manohar Lal said Janurary 19, 2026 that the government may introduce the Bill to further reform the dist...