{"id":338205,"date":"2020-02-19T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=338205"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T07:14:05","slug":"ytps-delay-caused-rs-2500-crore-power-burden-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ytps-delay-caused-rs-2500-crore-power-burden-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"YTPS delay caused Rs 2,500-crore power burden: CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity companies in Karnataka spent an &#8220;avoidable&#8221; Rs 2,517 crore to purchase power from the private sector because of the government\u2019s delay in completing the Yeramarus Thermal Power Station (YTPS), according to the latest Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (CAG) report. <\/p>\n<p>The 1,600-MW capacity YTPS was an ambitious project that was conceived to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of power in the state. The implementation of the YTPS was through a joint venture with the Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd and BHEL. <\/p>\n<p>The CAG report, which was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, has spilled the beans on how the YTPS project was mired in glitches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity companies in Karnataka spent an &#8220;avoidable&#8221; Rs 2,517 crore to purchase power from the private sector because of the government\u2019s delay in completing the Yeramarus Thermal Power Station (YTPS), according to the latest Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (CAG) report. The 1,600-MW capacity YTPS was an ambitious project that was conceived to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of power in the state. The implementation of the YTPS was through a joint venture with the Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd and BHEL. The CAG report, which was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, has spilled the beans on [&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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338205","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=338205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}