{"id":350348,"date":"2020-05-08T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T05:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350348"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T05:51:04","slug":"rising-over-dues-of-discoms-ntpc-bites-back-at-states-seeks-to-invoke-three-way-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rising-over-dues-of-discoms-ntpc-bites-back-at-states-seeks-to-invoke-three-way-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising \u2018over-dues\u2019 of discoms: NTPC bites back at states, seeks to invoke three-way agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pushed to the wall by the obstinate refusal of several electricity distribution companies (discoms) to pay over-due payments, state-run power producer NTPC will soon ask the Centre for its concurrence to invoke seldom-used tripartite agreements (TPAs).<\/p>\n<p>These agreements, first signed in FY02 and extended for a decade in 2016, make it incumbent on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to deduct the default amount from the respective state government\u2019s accounts with the central bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushed to the wall by the obstinate refusal of several electricity distribution companies (discoms) to pay over-due payments, state-run power producer NTPC will soon ask the Centre for its concurrence to invoke seldom-used tripartite agreements (TPAs). These agreements, first signed in FY02 and extended for a decade in 2016, make it incumbent on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to deduct the default amount from the respective state government\u2019s accounts with the central bank.<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350348","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=350348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}