The Bombay Electricity (Special Powers) Act (Application to Scheduled Areas) Regulation, 1955

The Bombay Electricity (Special Powers) Act (Application to Scheduled Areas) Regulation, 1955

This 1955 regulation extends the Bombay Electricity Special Powers Act of 1946 to specific tribal and reserved forest regions, known as Scheduled Areas, within the designated districts of West Khandesh, East Khandesh, Nasik, and Thane. It regulates the supply, distribution, and consumption of electricity, granting the local government special powers to control power usage in these territories. This matters because it integrated these protected, predominantly rural and indigenous communities into the state's broader energy management framework. Doing so ensured the State government could manage electricity supply fairly and handle power emergencies or critical shortages consistently across all these designated areas.

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