{"id":351585,"date":"2020-05-16T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351585"},"modified":"2020-05-16T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T05:44:41","slug":"power-discoms-to-get-%e2%82%b990000-cr-liquidity-fund-as-demand-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-discoms-to-get-%e2%82%b990000-cr-liquidity-fund-as-demand-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Power discoms to get \u20b990,000-cr liquidity fund as demand drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Wednesday announced a \u20b990,000 crore liquidity injection into fund-starved electricity distribution companies (discoms) as part of a stimulus package to revive the country\u2019s battered economy.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, made by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is one of the measures in the first tranche of a stimulus package to combat the economic disruption that has worsened the precarious finances of discoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiscoms today are facing unprecedented cash-flow problems,\u201d Sitharaman said.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity demand load shifted to homes during the lockdown, resulting in lower realizations. With peak electricity demand coming down, commercial and industrial power demand has taken a hit after many factories shut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Wednesday announced a \u20b990,000 crore liquidity injection into fund-starved electricity distribution companies (discoms) as part of a stimulus package to revive the country\u2019s battered economy. The announcement, made by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is one of the measures in the first tranche of a stimulus package to combat the economic disruption that has worsened the precarious finances of discoms. \u201cDiscoms today are facing unprecedented cash-flow problems,\u201d Sitharaman said. Electricity demand load shifted to homes during the lockdown, resulting in lower realizations. With peak electricity demand coming down, commercial and industrial power demand has taken a hit after [&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":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351585","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=351585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}