{"id":384011,"date":"2020-11-13T10:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384011"},"modified":"2020-11-13T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:21:42","slug":"loans-worth-rs-1-18-lakh-crore-sanctioned-under-discom-liquidity-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/loans-worth-rs-1-18-lakh-crore-sanctioned-under-discom-liquidity-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Loans worth Rs 1.18 lakh crore sanctioned under discom liquidity package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Loans worth Rs 1.18 lakh crore have been sanctioned so far by state-run non-banking finance firms Power Finance Corporation NSE 0.30 % and REC Ltd NSE -4.85 % under the liquidity package for stressed power distribution utilities, a statement said. In May, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced Rs 90,000 crore liquidity infusion into cash-strapped discoms facing demand slump due to the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This package was later increased to Rs 1.2 lakh crore by the Ministry of Power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company and its subsidiary REC Ltd, upto October 31, 2020, has sanctioned an amount of Rs 1,18,273 crore respectively under this scheme of liquidity package to eligible discoms,&#8221; PFC said in a BSE filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Loans worth Rs 1.18 lakh crore have been sanctioned so far by state-run non-banking finance firms Power Finance Corporation NSE 0.30 % and REC Ltd NSE -4.85 % under the liquidity package for stressed power distribution utilities, a statement said. In May, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced Rs 90,000 crore liquidity infusion into cash-strapped discoms facing demand slump due to the COVID-19 crisis. This package was later increased to Rs 1.2 lakh crore by the Ministry of Power. &#8220;The company and its subsidiary REC Ltd, upto October 31, 2020, has sanctioned an amount of Rs 1,18,273 crore [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384011","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\/384011","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=384011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}