News · 30 June 2026 · State
Karnataka: Tata Power withdraws the parallel-licence petitions
A historic victory of electricity employees, engineers, farmers and the people. The 29 June Bengaluru convention turned the government, and then the petitioner.
Tata Power has formally withdrawn its applications for a parallel distribution licence before the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission. That is a victory written by the united struggle of power employees, power engineers, farmers and the people of Karnataka.
It was not an accident. On 29 June 2026 a historic convention in Bengaluru brought together tens of thousands of electricity employees and engineers. Before that gathering the Chief Minister and the Energy Minister of Karnataka declared that the state government would not allow parallel licensing.
Six days earlier the National Centre had placed a detailed objection before KERC — petitions MP 02/2026 to MP 06/2026, covering the areas of BESCOM, CESC, HESCOM, MESCOM and GESCOM. The letter said a private licensee that lives on public wires is not competition. It is the picking of paying load and the dumping of the farmer on the public company.
Struggle. Unity. Trust. Victory. The same line now faces every other attempt to cut a private circle out of a public grid.