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Trained manpower is required at every stage due to rapid advancement of technology. The technical knowledge acquired from engineering colleges, polytechnics, industrial training institutes and technical institutes needs to be supplemented with applied engineering and managerial skills. These skills are to be regularly updated to cope with the ever progressing and rapidly advancing technologies being introduced in the power sector where the speed of obsolescence often overtakes the pace of acquisition of a particular skill. Due to introduction of more sophisticated technology and automation, the man/ MW ratio is declining. This indicates the increasing importance of each individual, which in turn makes manpower quality criteria more demanding. India�s energy sector has been growing rapidly and today is the ninth largest economy in the world, driven by a real GDP growth of 8.7% in the last five years. Also, India is one of the largest power generating countries in the world with an installed capacity in excess of 253 GW growing at a CAGR of over 10% in the last five years. Thus the immense potential for growth in the Indian power sector is apparent when we compare per capita consumption of electricity in India with that of developed nations i.e., only about 684 kilowatt hours (kWh) per capita, compared with over 7000 kWh per capita in industrialized nations such as Germany, France, Japan etc. This study will address the human resource challenges currently faced by power sector and lays out the strategies which ultimately lead to the development of this sector and provide better quality service to the consumers as per the stipulation contained in the Electricity Act, 2003.