{"id":269741,"date":"2019-04-18T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T07:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=269741"},"modified":"2019-04-18T07:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T07:24:52","slug":"rs-42k-cr-burden-discoms-dues-to-power-cos-rise-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rs-42k-cr-burden-discoms-dues-to-power-cos-rise-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 42k-cr burden: Discoms\u2019 dues to power cos rise 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While power generation units with combined capacity of 40 gigawatts (GW) are stressed and the sector is still grappling with the fall-out of several years of muted demand growth, state-run discoms\u2019 dues to the power producers continue to rise.<\/p>\n<p>According to data available with the power ministry\u2019s \u2018praapti\u2019 portal, the discoms\u2019 dues to 17 generators stood at `41,707 crore at February 2019-end, up a fifth from the level a year ago and 15% higher than at the end of August 2018. Of these dues, over half \u2014 `23,879 crore to be precise \u2014 are termed \u201cover-dues\u201d due to payment default of 60 days or more. The dues include those to independent power producers (about 57% of the total) and state-run utilities like NTPC, DVC and NHPC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While power generation units with combined capacity of 40 gigawatts (GW) are stressed and the sector is still grappling with the fall-out of several years of muted demand growth, state-run discoms\u2019 dues to the power producers continue to rise. According to data available with the power ministry\u2019s \u2018praapti\u2019 portal, the discoms\u2019 dues to 17 generators stood at `41,707 crore at February 2019-end, up a fifth from the level a year ago and 15% higher than at the end of August 2018. Of these dues, over half \u2014 `23,879 crore to be precise \u2014 are termed \u201cover-dues\u201d due to payment default [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269741","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=269741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}