Measurement of Relative Efficiency of State Owned Electric Utilities in INDIA Using Data Envelopment Analysis

In this paper two different DEA models were applied to evaluate the relative efficiency of State Owned Electric Utilities (SOEUs) in India. The DEA method was applied to find the overall efficiency, Technical Efficiency and Scale Efficiency. The Most Productive Scale Size (MPSS) is calculated for the scale inefficient utility. The results and discussions of this paper can be used to assist the authorities to pave the way for the improvement in technical and scale efficiency.

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