Govt, civic bodies arrears alone can bailout discoms
NEW DELHI: Don’t blame hapless consumers for discoms’ inability to pay power producers on time. If state government departments and urban local bodies (ULBs) alone pay their electricity arrears, distribution utilities will be able to clear their entire outstanding to generation companies and still be left with some money.
A review document of UDAY (Ujjwal Discom Assurance Yojana), the Centre’s ambitious plan for resuscitating distribution utilities, by government think-tank Niti Aayog last month shows government departments and local bodies running up power dues of Rs 41,386 crore in the first nine months of 2018-19.
