{"id":344106,"date":"2020-03-30T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=344106"},"modified":"2020-03-30T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T04:48:29","slug":"power-min-proposes-waiver-to-power-plants-from-advance-frieght-coal-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-min-proposes-waiver-to-power-plants-from-advance-frieght-coal-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Min proposes waiver to power plants from advance frieght, coal payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Power plants have been exempted from advance coal and freight payments for three months, which will prevent supply disruption during the lockdown and give a major relief to generating firms, particularly in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>A senior ministry official said the short-term dispensation was requested by private power companies that constitute 35% of Indian electricity generation base as they cited cash crunch due to non-payment by discoms. State and central generating companies including NTPCNSE -1.93 % also face the problems but the power ministry on Friday directed them to supply electricity to even defaulting state electricity distribution companies through a three- month moratorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Power plants have been exempted from advance coal and freight payments for three months, which will prevent supply disruption during the lockdown and give a major relief to generating firms, particularly in the private sector. A senior ministry official said the short-term dispensation was requested by private power companies that constitute 35% of Indian electricity generation base as they cited cash crunch due to non-payment by discoms. State and central generating companies including NTPCNSE -1.93 % also face the problems but the power ministry on Friday directed them to supply electricity to even defaulting state electricity distribution companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344106","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}