Grid Controller of India Limited (GRID-INDIA), the company entrusted with real-time control and management of India’s national electricity grid, has successfully held its 17th Annual General Meeting in 2016. At first glance, an annual general meeting appears to be a mere corporate ritual than news-making activity but then again, for an organization that operates on the basic principle of balancing electricity supply and demand in the nation second by second so that the country does not go dark, having seventeen successful years of operations is in itself a subtle indication of reliability.
What makes GRID-INDIA such a crucial point of intersection in the Indian infrastructure system is that it can cascade into blackouts affecting hundreds of millions of people, as has happened in a handful of dramatic incidents in India's past.
The continued maintenance of these key governance milestones for the technically advanced and specialised organisation shows just what kind of unsung organisational maturity lies beneath the headline-making events and forms the foundation for all other developments in the tale of economic development in India. As India increases its capacity for renewables, electric vehicles and electricity generation in general to an existing and complicated grid system, having that steady hand at managing all of that is definitely one of the more quietly impressive public sector success stories of the year.
