{"id":273217,"date":"2019-05-07T05:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273217"},"modified":"2019-05-07T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:14:18","slug":"state-owned-discoms-debt-set-to-rise-to-pre-uday-levels-of-rs-2-6-trn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/state-owned-discoms-debt-set-to-rise-to-pre-uday-levels-of-rs-2-6-trn\/","title":{"rendered":"State-owned discoms&#8217; debt set to rise to pre-Uday levels of Rs 2.6 trn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total debt of state-owned discoms is set to increase to pre-Uday levels of Rs 2.6 trillion by the end of this fiscal year, as many states have limited fiscal headroom to continue to support them, says a report. <\/p>\n<p>According to rating agency Crisil, which analysed 15 states which account for 85 per cent of the aggregate losses, discoms have to become commercially viable through prudent tariff hikes and a material reduction in aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses. <\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement the states had signed under Uday scheme with the Centre in FY16, discoms were to initiate begin reforms by reducing AT&amp;C losses by 900 basis points to 15 per cent by FY19, and also implement regular tariff hikes of 5-6 per cent per annum. In lieu, the states took over three- fourths of discom debt, thus reducing their interest burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total debt of state-owned discoms is set to increase to pre-Uday levels of Rs 2.6 trillion by the end of this fiscal year, as many states have limited fiscal headroom to continue to support them, says a report. According to rating agency Crisil, which analysed 15 states which account for 85 per cent of the aggregate losses, discoms have to become commercially viable through prudent tariff hikes and a material reduction in aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses. Under the agreement the states had signed under Uday scheme with the Centre in FY16, discoms were to initiate begin reforms by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273217","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}