{"id":261589,"date":"2019-02-28T05:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=261589"},"modified":"2019-02-28T05:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:11:16","slug":"new-electricity-cable-infrastructure-on-cards-via-rs-37000-crore-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-electricity-cable-infrastructure-on-cards-via-rs-37000-crore-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"New electricity cable infrastructure on cards via Rs 37,000 crore scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Centre is considering a Rs 37,000-crore scheme to fund new overhead electricity distribution cabling infrastructureNSE 0.31 % in states for prevention of rampant power theft. <\/p>\n<p>According to estimates, India loses about Rs 8,500 crore a year on account of aggregate technical and commercial losses (AT&amp;C). Technical losses are contingent upon network condition and wastage due to heat dissipation in distribution of electricity while commercial losses are on account of non-billing, lack of collection, pilferage and theft. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Centre is considering a Rs 37,000-crore scheme to fund new overhead electricity distribution cabling infrastructureNSE 0.31 % in states for prevention of rampant power theft. According to estimates, India loses about Rs 8,500 crore a year on account of aggregate technical and commercial losses (AT&amp;C). Technical losses are contingent upon network condition and wastage due to heat dissipation in distribution of electricity while commercial losses are on account of non-billing, lack of collection, pilferage and theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}