{"id":378803,"date":"2020-10-16T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=378803"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T06:15:09","slug":"fixing-state-government-discoms-reform-or-privatise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fixing-state-government-discoms-reform-or-privatise\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing state-government discoms: Reform or privatise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-government owned distribution utilities (discoms) continue to be plagued by challenges, and thus remain the weakest link in the power sector value chain. As a result, the many discom bailout\/relief packages announced over the past two decades are now seen as a periodic phenomenon. The recent liquidity relief package announced by the Centre in May 2020 is the fourth such. Its predecessor, the UDAY scheme (announced in November 2015) mainly enabled a reduction in the interest cost for participating discoms, led by debt refinancing and take-over of debt by their respective state governments. However, slow progress in efficiency improvements by discoms and delays in the tariff-determination process remain areas of concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-government owned distribution utilities (discoms) continue to be plagued by challenges, and thus remain the weakest link in the power sector value chain. As a result, the many discom bailout\/relief packages announced over the past two decades are now seen as a periodic phenomenon. The recent liquidity relief package announced by the Centre in May 2020 is the fourth such. Its predecessor, the UDAY scheme (announced in November 2015) mainly enabled a reduction in the interest cost for participating discoms, led by debt refinancing and take-over of debt by their respective state governments. However, slow progress in efficiency improvements by [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378803","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=378803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}