But with the enactment of the Electricity Act 2003 of the Government of India, MSEB was unbundled into 4 Companies on 6 June 2005 viz.

To overcome the power crisis and improve consumer services MSEDCL made an in-depth study involving sub-division-wise research of distribution networks and planned ambitious projects.

With a view to cater to future load, provide quality, reliable energy supply, and reduce losses MSEDCL formulated Rs.

The plan envisages the erection and commissioning of 586 sub-stations, 52351 circuit kilometers of HT lines, 58,629 distribution transformers besides augmentation of the existing network.

The new infrastructure with augmentation and renovation of the distribution network will revolutionize the quality and reliability of supply.

rural areas face 8.30 to 11 hours of load shedding a day which is decided by MERC.

BPL families are provided with 1.5 point power connections at a nominal charge of Rs.15/- each and the villages are electrified as per the new definition under this scheme.

Earlier, there used to be a long list of pending applications and the farmers used to wait for years together for supply.

MSEDCL, in a year or two, would be in a position to grant agricultural connections on-demand on par with other categories of consumers.

In 5 years, MSEDCL reduced distribution losses from 35% to 20% through various drives such as: This is being implemented on regular basis.

MSEDCL has established 50 flying squads functioning under Security and Enforcement department to detect and handle power theft cases quickly.

For many consumers, meters were installed in hard-to-access places, making theft easy to conceal.

Bhiwandi, a power loom city, had typical problems like rampant theft and non-payment.

Its later Distribution franchisee attempts for Aurangabad Urban I & II Divisions of Aurangabad Urban Circle (M/s GTL Private Limited) and Gandhibag, Civil Lines, and Mahal Divisions of Nagpur Urban Circle (given to M/s Spanco & later M/s Essel group) miserably failed after a few years of operation and MSEDCL has to take over these areas after facing huge loss of revenue from these two Metro Cities.

[1] Zero Load Shedding Model is being implemented at certain places with the active participation of local citizens through consumer groups and peoples representatives.

In this model, a costly power to the extent of shortfall is arranged for which a reliability charge is levied upon the local consumers.

Beginning in Pune, the model was implemented in Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pen and Baramati.

Of late MSEDCL itself filed a petition before the MERC for implementing Zero Load Shedding Model at all the Headquarters of Revenue Divisions - Nagpur, Amravati, Navi Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad.