{"id":346455,"date":"2020-04-13T12:34:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T07:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346455"},"modified":"2020-04-13T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T07:04:49","slug":"govt-mulls-more-steps-to-keep-cash-strapped-discoms-afloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-mulls-more-steps-to-keep-cash-strapped-discoms-afloat\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls more steps to keep cash-strapped discoms afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government may soon announce more steps &#8212; like cheaper working capital and lower tariff &#8212; for power discoms to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply during the lockdown to contain COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Power Ministry is working on a proposal to provide relief to discom to keep them afloat during the lockdown, especially when the demand is low and their bills collections is negligible,&#8221; according to a source.<\/p>\n<p>The power demand has came down by almost one third during the lockdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government may soon announce more steps &#8212; like cheaper working capital and lower tariff &#8212; for power discoms to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply during the lockdown to contain COVID-19. &#8220;The Power Ministry is working on a proposal to provide relief to discom to keep them afloat during the lockdown, especially when the demand is low and their bills collections is negligible,&#8221; according to a source. The power demand has came down by almost one third during the lockdown.<\/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-346455","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\/346455","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=346455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}