{"id":377313,"date":"2020-10-08T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377313"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T05:08:21","slug":"reforms-to-make-discoms-viable-within-3-years-power-minister-rk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/reforms-to-make-discoms-viable-within-3-years-power-minister-rk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforms to make discoms viable within 3 years: Power Minister RK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Path-breaking reforms in the power sector will make India&#8217;s state distribution companies financially viable within three years, union power and renewable energy minister RK Singh said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed reforms include a provision to terminate the service of a regulator that does not abide by the law and resists a legitimate petition to raise tariffs when costs rise. This provision is being introduced in place of the earlier proposal to take away the power of a state government to appoint a regulator, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Path-breaking reforms in the power sector will make India&#8217;s state distribution companies financially viable within three years, union power and renewable energy minister RK Singh said on Wednesday. The proposed reforms include a provision to terminate the service of a regulator that does not abide by the law and resists a legitimate petition to raise tariffs when costs rise. This provision is being introduced in place of the earlier proposal to take away the power of a state government to appoint a regulator, he said.<\/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-377313","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\/377313","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=377313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}