{"id":351896,"date":"2020-05-18T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351896"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:09:45","slug":"fm-puts-power-sector-privatisation-back-in-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fm-puts-power-sector-privatisation-back-in-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"FM puts power sector privatisation back in discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced that electricity distribution utilities or power departments in the Union Territories will be privatised for better service and efficiency, putting the issue of privatisation as a key element of power sector reforms back into public discourse.<br \/>\nAnnouncing the fourth instalment of measures as part of the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus promised by the PM, Sitharaman also outlined the contours of the revised Tariff Policy, saying it will put consumers first by laying down standards of service and penalty on discoms in case of failure to meet those standards, ensure adequate supply and penalty for wilful blackouts by utilities.<br \/>\nThe revised policy has been cleared by a group of ministers and is awaiting Cabinet nod. It will ensure a progressive reduction in cross-subsidies across the industry and rationalise tariffs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced that electricity distribution utilities or power departments in the Union Territories will be privatised for better service and efficiency, putting the issue of privatisation as a key element of power sector reforms back into public discourse. Announcing the fourth instalment of measures as part of the Rs 20 lakh crore stimulus promised by the PM, Sitharaman also outlined the contours of the revised Tariff Policy, saying it will put consumers first by laying down standards of service and penalty on discoms in case of failure to meet those standards, ensure adequate [&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":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351896","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=351896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}