{"id":273818,"date":"2019-05-13T05:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273818"},"modified":"2019-05-13T05:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:36:28","slug":"discoms-check-theft-raise-billing-under-uday-but-still-losses-mount-in-poll-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-check-theft-raise-billing-under-uday-but-still-losses-mount-in-poll-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms check theft, raise billing under UDAY but still losses mount in poll season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The average aggregate transmission and distribution (AT&amp;C) losses \u2013 an euphemism for loss due to power theft and distribution inefficiency \u2013 has marginally reduced to 19% in the nine months of 2018-19 from 19.5% in the year-ago period due to UDAY, the ambitious Central scheme for resuscitating state distribution utilities. <\/p>\n<p>A Niti Ayog presentation on the two-and-a-half years of UDAY shows billing by Discoms rising 8% to 601,822 million units (MUs) during this period against 556,698 MUs in the previous corresponding period. In term of efficiency too Discoms billed 84.9% of power supplied in the nine months, up from 84.6% a year ago. Collection efficiency too improved to 95.3% during this period from 95.1% a year ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The average aggregate transmission and distribution (AT&amp;C) losses \u2013 an euphemism for loss due to power theft and distribution inefficiency \u2013 has marginally reduced to 19% in the nine months of 2018-19 from 19.5% in the year-ago period due to UDAY, the ambitious Central scheme for resuscitating state distribution utilities. A Niti Ayog presentation on the two-and-a-half years of UDAY shows billing by Discoms rising 8% to 601,822 million units (MUs) during this period against 556,698 MUs in the previous corresponding period. In term of efficiency too Discoms billed 84.9% of power supplied in the nine months, up [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273818","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\/273818","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=273818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}