All India Discoms Association

All India Discoms Association (AIDA) was set up in December 2024 as a non-profit charitable society. It has now 55 utilities as its members. AIDA is now recognized as a unique platform representing the reasoned and collective viewpoint of distribution utilities in India. Its membership and the Executive Council consist of distribution utilities alone. It is working tirelessly for effective policy and regulatory advocacy, capacity building in discoms, and collaboration for sharing best practices and standardization of equipment specification for better quality and competitive prices. AIDA aims at world class distribution performance for larger welfare of common electricity consumers. Presently, Shri Lokesh Chandra, CMD, MSEDCL, Maharashtra Discom is President, AIDA, Dr. Ashish Kumar Goel, Chairman, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. (UPPCL) is the General Secretary, AIDA. The Executive Council of AIDA has ten other members – two Discom MDs from each of the five regions of the country. Shri Alok Kumar, former Power Secretary to the Government of India, is the CEO and Director General, AIDA.