{"id":378609,"date":"2020-10-15T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378609"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T06:47:55","slug":"despite-andhra-governments-help-power-sector-paints-grim-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/despite-andhra-governments-help-power-sector-paints-grim-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Andhra government&#8217;s help, power sector paints grim picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Despite taking steps to bring down its expenditure plus the support from the State government, the State power sector continued to present a grim picture as it has become a \u2018Herculean task\u2019 for the beleaguered power utilities to even borrow loans. <\/p>\n<p>The officials said that the Central Power Utilities (CPUs) were threatening to invoke tripartite agreement clauses to deduct dues from Central devolution if the State does not clear them.According to the latest status report prepared by the department on the financial health of the sector after repeated requests from the AP State Power Employees Joint Action Committee (JAC), the officials said that even the monthly salaries of the employees are being paid \u201cwith a lot of difficulty and adjustments\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Despite taking steps to bring down its expenditure plus the support from the State government, the State power sector continued to present a grim picture as it has become a \u2018Herculean task\u2019 for the beleaguered power utilities to even borrow loans. The officials said that the Central Power Utilities (CPUs) were threatening to invoke tripartite agreement clauses to deduct dues from Central devolution if the State does not clear them.According to the latest status report prepared by the department on the financial health of the sector after repeated requests from the AP State Power Employees Joint Action Committee (JAC), [&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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378609","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=378609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}