Nanjido, an island in Republic of South Korea, at the end of the Han River was made a landfill site in 1978. Fifteen years later, the site had to be closed due to the extensive damage caused by the pollution of soil, air, surface and underground water. In 1996, the Seoul Metropolitan Government decided to continue till 2020.

During the last 50 years, there have been several bilateral and multilateral initiatives for promoting City-to-City cooperation with varying objectives. These initiatives aim at bringing two or more cities closer to each other at the level of government, communities, and institutions/organisations with the objective of encouraging human contact and cultural link.

The paper deals with the technical and financial performance and the reforms process in the power utility of Punjab. Technical as well as financial performance of the utility has been found unsatisfactory, mainly due to the lack of commercial outlook and unaccountable and unnecessary political interference in the functioning of the utility.