{"id":356597,"date":"2020-06-10T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356597"},"modified":"2020-06-10T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T06:56:12","slug":"govt-aims-to-complete-privatisation-of-ut-discoms-by-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/govt-aims-to-complete-privatisation-of-ut-discoms-by-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt aims to complete privatisation of UT discoms by January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To usher in efficiency, the government is planning to privatise the electricity distribution companies (discoms) in Union Territories (UTs) by January 2021, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts would also be made to privatise a number of discoms in major states such as Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Assam to improve the governance of these state-run entities. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre had announced in May that power departments and distribution utilities in Union Territories (UTs) will be privatised. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had then said that the Centre hopes the privatisation of UT discoms will \u201cprovide a model for emulation by other utilities across the country\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To usher in efficiency, the government is planning to privatise the electricity distribution companies (discoms) in Union Territories (UTs) by January 2021, sources said. Efforts would also be made to privatise a number of discoms in major states such as Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Assam to improve the governance of these state-run entities. The Centre had announced in May that power departments and distribution utilities in Union Territories (UTs) will be privatised. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had then said that the Centre hopes the privatisation of UT discoms will \u201cprovide a model for emulation by [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356597","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\/356597","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=356597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}