National Committee on Transmission
The Ministry of Power (MoP) through its notification dated 13th April 2018, had constituted the National Committee on Transmission (NCT) with identified Terms of Reference for the Committee. It was reconstituted again by a MoP notification dated 4th November 2019 with revised Terms of Reference. The committee is now mandated to evaluate the functioning of the National grid, consider the recommendations of the <a href="/sub_modules/Policy/RPC" target="_blank">Regional Power Committee (Transmission Planning) (RPCTP)</a> for system expansion, to evaluate the assessments of CTU and to make Perspective plans for 10-15 years' time horizon. The NCT was further reconstituted by a MoP notification dated 28th October 2021 with revised Terms of Reference. NCT is mandated to approve ISTS projects costing between ₹100 crore and ₹500 crore. For projects above ₹500 crore cost, NCT has to refer them to MoP for approval while for projects less than ₹100 crore cost, the CTU is the authority for approval. In addition to NCT, there were two other bodies involved in transmission system approval, namely, <a href="/sub_modules/Policy/ECT" target="_blank">Empowered Committee on Transmission (ECT)</a> and <a href="/sub_modules/Policy/RPC" target="_blank">Regional Power Committee (Transmission Planning) (RPCTP)</a> (one for each region). ECT was dissolved in 2019 after re-constitution of NCT. Furthemore, RPCTPs were dissolved in Oct, 2021 and NCT has been consulting Regional Power Committees (RPCs) since then. The minutes of meetings held by NCT can be accessed <a href="/Policy/NCT/minutes_of_meeting" target="_blank">here</a>.
Re-constitution of NCT (2021)
- Member(Power System), CEA (Member)
- Member(Economic & Commercial), CEA (Member)
- Joint secretary level officer nominated by secretary, MNRE (Member)
- Director(Trans), MoP (Member)
- COO, CTU, Powergrid (Member)
- CMD, POSOCO
- Advisor (Energy), NITI Aayog (Member)
- Two experts from Power Sector (Members) [To be nominated by the MoP, for a maximum period of 2 years]
- Chief Engineer(from Power System Wing), CEA (Member Secretary)
- CTU shall make comprehensive presentation before NCT every quarter for ensuring development of an efficient, co-ordinated and economical ISTS for smooth flow of electricity.
- Consider proposals submitted by CTU for expansion of ISTS
- Annual plan prepared by CTU (five-yr rolling plan for ISTS capacity addition) shall be put up to NCT six months in advance.
- After considering recommendations of CTU and views of RPCs, NCT shall propose expansion of ISTS considering various factors
- shall formulate packages for proposed transmission schemes for their implementation
- shall estimate cost of transmission packages and may constitute a cost committee for this purpose.
- shall recommend to MoP for implementation of ISTS for projects with cost more than Rs. 500 crore, along with their mode of implementation. However, the NCT shall approve the ISTS costing between Rs 100 crore to Rs.500 crore or such limit as prescribed by MoP from time to time, along with their mode of implementation under intimation to MoP. The ISTS costing less than or equal to Rs. 100 crores, or such limit as prescribed by MoP from time to time, will be approved by the CTU along with their mode of implementation under intimation to the NCT and MoP. After approval of the ISTS by the NCT or the CTU, the TBCB project shall be allocated to Bid Process Coordinators through Gazette Notification, while the RTM project shall be allocated to CTU.
- allocate the task of carrying out survey amongst the CTU and Bid Process Coordinators by maintaining a roster.