{"id":375509,"date":"2020-09-26T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T06:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375509"},"modified":"2020-09-26T13:53:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T08:23:16","slug":"jharkhand-gets-power-bill-jolt-rs-5600-crore-due-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jharkhand-gets-power-bill-jolt-rs-5600-crore-due-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Jharkhand gets power bill jolt: Rs 5,600 crore due today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Power Ministry has told Jharkhand to pay up more than Rs 5,600 crore in power supply dues to Damodar Valley Corporation by Saturday, failing which the Reserve Bank of India would deduct the sum from the state government\u2019s account in quarterly instalments.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated September 11, Ministry Under-Secretary P K Sinha said the state power utility, Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (JBVNL), had been irregular in paying power bills over the last few years, resulting in the accumulation of \u201chuge dues to the tune of Rs 5,608.32 crore as on 13.8.2020\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>But the Centre has also dangled a solution before Jharkhand\u2014the power utility can \u201cavail loan under Atmanirbhar Bharat\u201d package wherein the government has announced an infusion of Rs 90,000 crore for the power sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Power Ministry has told Jharkhand to pay up more than Rs 5,600 crore in power supply dues to Damodar Valley Corporation by Saturday, failing which the Reserve Bank of India would deduct the sum from the state government\u2019s account in quarterly instalments. In a letter dated September 11, Ministry Under-Secretary P K Sinha said the state power utility, Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (JBVNL), had been irregular in paying power bills over the last few years, resulting in the accumulation of \u201chuge dues to the tune of Rs 5,608.32 crore as on 13.8.2020\u201d. But the Centre has also [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375509","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=375509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}