{"id":339198,"date":"2020-02-27T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339198"},"modified":"2020-02-27T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T06:01:55","slug":"centre-plans-to-encourage-inefficient-discoms-to-seek-privatisation-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-plans-to-encourage-inefficient-discoms-to-seek-privatisation-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre plans to encourage inefficient discoms to seek privatisation: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government will encourage inefficient state power utilities to seek privatization and other institutional reforms to turn around money-losing operations and ensure reliable supplies to consumers, according to a top bureaucrat in the power ministry.<\/p>\n<p>States with electricity utilities that lose more than 15% of revenue due to archaic networks, power theft and sloppy billing and collections would be pushed to seek private participation in their distribution network as part of the country\u2019s planned second wave of power reforms, Power Secretary Sanjiv Nandan Sahai said in an interview in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>India has been increasingly advocating privatization of ailing distribution companies as government efforts since 2015 to revive the utilities failed to turn around the firms, known as discoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian government will encourage inefficient state power utilities to seek privatization and other institutional reforms to turn around money-losing operations and ensure reliable supplies to consumers, according to a top bureaucrat in the power ministry. States with electricity utilities that lose more than 15% of revenue due to archaic networks, power theft and sloppy billing and collections would be pushed to seek private participation in their distribution network as part of the country\u2019s planned second wave of power reforms, Power Secretary Sanjiv Nandan Sahai said in an interview in New Delhi. India has been increasingly advocating privatization of ailing distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339198","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}