{"id":373454,"date":"2020-09-14T11:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=373454"},"modified":"2020-09-14T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:13:55","slug":"discoms-liquidity-package-set-for-hike-at-rs-1-2-lakh-crore-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-liquidity-package-set-for-hike-at-rs-1-2-lakh-crore-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms&#8217; liquidity package set for hike at Rs 1.2 lakh crore this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Rs 90,000-crore liquidity package for discoms to help them pay their dues till the month of March would soon be enhanced to Rs 1.2 lakh crore factoring in these utilities&#8217; outstanding till June, said a senior official. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in May announced a Rs 90,000 crore liquidity infusion into cash-strapped discoms for payment of their dues till March 2020. Discoms have been facing demand slump due to the lockdown to contain COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Participating in a webinar on &#8216;Innovation in Renewable Energy&#8217; organised by PHDCCI, Power Secretary S N Sahai said the liquidity package would cover the outstanding dues of discoms for the months from April to June also and it would be enhanced to Rs 1.2 lakh crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Rs 90,000-crore liquidity package for discoms to help them pay their dues till the month of March would soon be enhanced to Rs 1.2 lakh crore factoring in these utilities&#8217; outstanding till June, said a senior official. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in May announced a Rs 90,000 crore liquidity infusion into cash-strapped discoms for payment of their dues till March 2020. Discoms have been facing demand slump due to the lockdown to contain COVID-19. Participating in a webinar on &#8216;Innovation in Renewable Energy&#8217; organised by PHDCCI, Power Secretary S N Sahai said the liquidity package would cover [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373454","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=373454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}