{"id":342403,"date":"2020-03-19T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342403"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:37:38","slug":"why-the-lights-dimmed-on-uday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/why-the-lights-dimmed-on-uday\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the lights dimmed on UDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : When it was launched in 2016, the Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (or UDAY) was hailed as a game-changer for India\u2019s power sector. Yet despite the hype, India\u2019s power sector remains a mess. Less than 50% of rural households receive more than 12 hours of electricity supply, according to a 2018 study. And state distribution companies or discoms &#8212; responsible for delivering electricity to households &#8212; are plagued with leakages, burdened with debt, and reeling under losses.<\/p>\n<p>While financial losses of discoms have declined, they continue to incur huge losses. Indicative data from a Rajya Sabha reply shows that state electricity boards faced losses of around \u20b927,250 crore as of 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>UDAY sought to instil financial discipline and restructure debt but the scheme has failed to tackle the underlying issues in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : When it was launched in 2016, the Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (or UDAY) was hailed as a game-changer for India\u2019s power sector. Yet despite the hype, India\u2019s power sector remains a mess. Less than 50% of rural households receive more than 12 hours of electricity supply, according to a 2018 study. And state distribution companies or discoms &#8212; responsible for delivering electricity to households &#8212; are plagued with leakages, burdened with debt, and reeling under losses. While financial losses of discoms have declined, they continue to incur huge losses. Indicative data from a Rajya Sabha reply shows [&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-342403","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\/342403","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=342403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}