Will Nilekani lead a new task force on digitising the power sector? What we know

Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is likely to lead a new task group on the digitisation and decentralisation of India’s power sector. The Nilekani-led task force will be supported by funds from the electricity ministry’s Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS), according to a new report in The Economic Times.

If everything goes as per the plan, this will be the second time the government will work with Nilekani to shape reforms in the power domain. The initiative’s main goal is to reduce generation, transmission and distribution costs in power by…