{"id":391858,"date":"2020-12-28T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391858"},"modified":"2020-12-28T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T05:13:00","slug":"rural-electrification-many-micro-units-still-out-in-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rural-electrification-many-micro-units-still-out-in-the-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural electrification: Many micro units still out in the cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electrification drive which saw India achieve 100% coverage in 2018 has left out in the cold more than 40% of rural micro enterprises in four major states with loss-making discoms, with these entities still dependent on diesel to run operations. The state utilities have either failed to bring them under the grid or provide them uninterrupted supply of electricity, leading to high operational costs for the micro enterprises even as the discoms are deprived of an important source of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>As per the findings of a recent survey conducted by Smart Power India, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and Niti Aayog, on 25,000 customers across four customer groups in 10 states, the availability of electricity infrastructure has significantly improved in states. But the quality of service and supply has not met customer expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electrification drive which saw India achieve 100% coverage in 2018 has left out in the cold more than 40% of rural micro enterprises in four major states with loss-making discoms, with these entities still dependent on diesel to run operations. The state utilities have either failed to bring them under the grid or provide them uninterrupted supply of electricity, leading to high operational costs for the micro enterprises even as the discoms are deprived of an important source of revenue. As per the findings of a recent survey conducted by Smart Power India, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation [&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-391858","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\/391858","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=391858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}