{"id":345813,"date":"2020-04-07T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345813"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:10:37","slug":"power-ministry-warns-discoms-to-pay-bills-on-time-promises-more-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-ministry-warns-discoms-to-pay-bills-on-time-promises-more-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Ministry warns discoms to pay bills on time, promises more funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : The central government intends to infuse liquidity into financially frail public power distribution companies (discoms), a press release from the Ministry of Power said. While these efforts are ongoing, discoms must pay their bills to power generators on time despite the ongoing covid-19 crisis and the national lockdown, the ministry clarified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts are being made to infuse some liquidity in the power sector, the details of which would be shared with discoms shortly,&#8221; the press release said. \u201cHowever, discoms may also raise funds, if required, to meet this crisis.&#8221; The obligation to pay for power within 45 days of the presentation of the bill or as provided in the PPA (power purchase agreement) remains unchanged, the release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI : The central government intends to infuse liquidity into financially frail public power distribution companies (discoms), a press release from the Ministry of Power said. While these efforts are ongoing, discoms must pay their bills to power generators on time despite the ongoing covid-19 crisis and the national lockdown, the ministry clarified. \u201cEfforts are being made to infuse some liquidity in the power sector, the details of which would be shared with discoms shortly,&#8221; the press release said. \u201cHowever, discoms may also raise funds, if required, to meet this crisis.&#8221; The obligation to pay for power within 45 days [&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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345813","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\/345813","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=345813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}