{"id":299522,"date":"2019-11-05T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T06:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299522"},"modified":"2019-11-05T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T06:41:50","slug":"to-modernise-power-infrastructure-assam-in-talks-with-aiib-for-%e2%82%b93200-crore-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/to-modernise-power-infrastructure-assam-in-talks-with-aiib-for-%e2%82%b93200-crore-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"To modernise power infrastructure, Assam in talks with AIIB for \u20b93,200-crore loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam government is negotiating a \u20b93,200-crore loan from Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to revamp its archaic electricity distribution system, which is responsible for poor quality of supply and high peak shortage. <\/p>\n<p>A decision in this regard is expected by December. <\/p>\n<p>Peak shortage <\/p>\n<p>As in the first half of this fiscal, the North-East reported highest peak shortage of 4.9 per cent, as against a national average of 0.7 per cent. The reasons lie mostly in Assam \u2014 the largest State in the region. <\/p>\n<p>Years of inaction has left the State with an archaic distribution system marked that still uses bamboo poles, inadequate number of sub-stations, leading to frequent power cuts and voltage fluctuations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam government is negotiating a \u20b93,200-crore loan from Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to revamp its archaic electricity distribution system, which is responsible for poor quality of supply and high peak shortage. A decision in this regard is expected by December. Peak shortage As in the first half of this fiscal, the North-East reported highest peak shortage of 4.9 per cent, as against a national average of 0.7 per cent. The reasons lie mostly in Assam \u2014 the largest State in the region. Years of inaction has left the State with an archaic distribution system marked that still [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299522","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=299522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}