New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- India's apex power sector planning body, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), recently unveiled its roadmap to indigenize the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems by the end of this decade.

Mint explains the move and the challenges amid concerns over imported systems used in electricity distribution and transmission, at a time when Chinese hackers have targeted India's critical infrastructure, including power grids, in recent years.

SCADA is a system used to control and monitor the power system across the generation, transmission, and distribution functional areas. A combination of software and hardware, SCADA gathers and transmits information from remote locations, controls specific devices...