Dadri-II power station allocation: HC slams Delhi govt, asks Centre to intervene to settle dispute

Stating that the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) and the Delhi government “permitted a state of ambivalence and indecisiveness” to prevail in respect of the Dadri-II thermal power station, the Delhi High Court has noted that no formal retraction of the 2015 letter communicating surrender of the allocation was conveyed to the Centre.

“The petitioners as well as the DERC never raised any objection to that communication,” said Justice Yashwant Varma in an order passed in BSES Rajdhani Power Limited’s petition against Centre’s decision to divert more than 700 MW of power allocated to Delhi from Dadri-II to Haryana.