{"id":375534,"date":"2020-09-28T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375534"},"modified":"2020-09-28T08:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:25:20","slug":"niti-working-on-index-to-foster-competition-in-power-distribution-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/niti-working-on-index-to-foster-competition-in-power-distribution-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"NITI working on index to foster competition in power distribution: Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niti Aayog has been working on a State Energy Index that is set to foster healthy competition in the states&#8217; power distribution space, the think tank&#8217;s Vice-Chairman, Rajiv Kumar, said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The tool will be designed to assess and further improve the performance of states to efficiently manage their energy resources. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Niti Aayog has been working on a #StateEnergyIndex that is set to foster healthy competition in the states&#8217; energy #DISCOM space. The index would not only allow for better formulation &amp; implementation of strategies for continuous improvement &amp; management of resources,&#8221; Kumar said in a tweet. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But also enable a comprehensive assessment of a specific #DISCOM aided by the use of indicators like: viability, access, affordability &amp; reliability of #energy, and even their efforts at #cleanenergy initiatives, energy efficiency and #technology innovation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niti Aayog has been working on a State Energy Index that is set to foster healthy competition in the states&#8217; power distribution space, the think tank&#8217;s Vice-Chairman, Rajiv Kumar, said on Saturday. The tool will be designed to assess and further improve the performance of states to efficiently manage their energy resources. &#8220;Niti Aayog has been working on a #StateEnergyIndex that is set to foster healthy competition in the states&#8217; energy #DISCOM space. The index would not only allow for better formulation &amp; implementation of strategies for continuous improvement &amp; management of resources,&#8221; Kumar said in a tweet. &#8220;But 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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375534","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=375534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}