{"id":351504,"date":"2020-05-16T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351504"},"modified":"2020-05-16T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:18:02","slug":"india-to-privatise-all-electricity-discoms-in-union-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-to-privatise-all-electricity-discoms-in-union-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"India to privatise all electricity discoms in union territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will privatise all electricity distribution companies (discoms) in the Union Territories, said power minister Raj Kumar Singh at a digital interaction with industry chief executives on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike discoms in the states, which fall under the remit of the respective state governments, there is a separate dispensation for discoms in Union Territories, as they are administered directly by the central government.<\/p>\n<p>The government on Wednesday had announced a reform-linked \u20b990,000 crore liquidity injection into fund-starved discoms as part of a \u20b920 trillion stimulus package to revive the economy. These funds, as reported by Mint earlier, will be given to discoms against state government guarantees and are accompanied by a temporary tariff reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India will privatise all electricity distribution companies (discoms) in the Union Territories, said power minister Raj Kumar Singh at a digital interaction with industry chief executives on Friday. Unlike discoms in the states, which fall under the remit of the respective state governments, there is a separate dispensation for discoms in Union Territories, as they are administered directly by the central government. The government on Wednesday had announced a reform-linked \u20b990,000 crore liquidity injection into fund-starved discoms as part of a \u20b920 trillion stimulus package to revive the economy. These funds, as reported by Mint earlier, will be [&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-351504","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\/351504","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=351504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}