Nepal has the power, India the market

T. N. Thakur is chairman of the Power Trading Corporation of India (PTC), a private-public partnership whose primary focus is to develop a commercially vibrant power market in India. Since 2006, Thakur has been actively involved in organizing the Power Summit in Kathmandu, which brings together top level government officials and private investors from Nepal, India and beyond. From its inception in 1999, the PTC has sought to provide services that address the sustainability of a power market model including intermediation for long-term supply of power from identified domestic and cross-border power projects, financial services like providing equity support to projects in the energy value chain, advisory services and forays into providing fuel linkages to power plants of various generators participating in the power market. In the Weekly Interview, Thakur—who spoke with Purna P Bista and Thira Lal Bhusal of The Kathmandu Post —urged the government of Nepal to reform its power policies and invite investors for the benefit of both Nepal and India.