Power sector needs to revitalise distribution system, says Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu

To make the power sector "commercially viable", there is a need to overhaul the whole sub-transmission and distribution system, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said on Wednesday.

"Today there is capacity to generate mega power by public and private sector but the need is to correct and revitalise the distribution system," Prabhu said at the launch of a book in the national capital.

The book "The bloom in the desert: The making of NTPC" is authored by the Founding Chairman and MD of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) D V Kapur.

The Railway Minister further said "that now the big challenge before the power sector is that we have created capacity. NTPC is generating power...still you must find out ways to make power sector commercially viable."

He added that in order to make power sector commercially viable sub transmission and distribution is going to play crucial role.

At the launch, he added that NTPC is a great organisation which could not have been created had there not been a leader like Kapur.