Post the Union Budget 2021 and announcement of heavy duty roll out of funds planned to pull out discoms from disarray and augment them to attain financial sustainability two areas are of particular focus apart from allied push to RE. These are feeder segregation and adaptation of smart meters so as the revenue flow for the discoms become prudent. Although, smart metering penetration in India is at very nascent stage the results are very positive for the utilities who have piloted for it and the market is anticipated to gain momentum for installation under SMNP. Further, domestic manufacturing shall also pick up courtesy the need of data security which saw the contracts awarded to Chinese firms got cancelled. But a similar approach for feeder segregation may not augur well purely for the fact that it is not required everywhere in the country. So, the follow-up question naturally becomes as to “what should be the approach of the country” for adapting the feeder segregation model? Well, the answer lies in giving a deep dive onto the spread of agricultural consumers for each power distribution utilities and what’s their share in revenue contribution. Also, the status of input into such feeders in case of agricultural consumers to cover for any surplus from micro/mini grid solar plants shall be interesting to push the business case for feeder segregation in the country.