{"id":280512,"date":"2019-07-06T04:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280512"},"modified":"2019-07-06T04:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:57:15","slug":"budget-2019-uday-to-be-reviewed-new-power-tariff-reforms-on-anvil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2019-uday-to-be-reviewed-new-power-tariff-reforms-on-anvil\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2019: UDAY to be reviewed, new power tariff reforms on anvil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Alliance government\u2019s scheme for turning around the power distribution sector, Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), will now be reviewed, Finance Minister Niramala Sitharaman said on Friday. \u201cThe government is examining the performance of the scheme and it will be further improved,\u201d she said during her Budget speech. <\/p>\n<p>In the past one year, the success rate of UDAY was being debated by several agencies. When UDAY was launched in 2015, the distribution companies cleared their debt through bond issuance against them, but they are back at making losses now. The operational targets of reducing power supply loss and improving efficiency is still a work in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Alliance government\u2019s scheme for turning around the power distribution sector, Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), will now be reviewed, Finance Minister Niramala Sitharaman said on Friday. \u201cThe government is examining the performance of the scheme and it will be further improved,\u201d she said during her Budget speech. In the past one year, the success rate of UDAY was being debated by several agencies. When UDAY was launched in 2015, the distribution companies cleared their debt through bond issuance against them, but they are back at making losses now. The operational targets of reducing power supply loss and [&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-280512","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\/280512","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=280512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}