{"id":397533,"date":"2021-01-28T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=397533"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:26:25","slug":"budget-2021-govt-plans-%e2%82%b93-trillion-reform-to-revive-ailing-power-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2021-govt-plans-%e2%82%b93-trillion-reform-to-revive-ailing-power-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2021: Govt plans \u20b93 trillion reform to revive ailing power utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to spend \u20b93 trillion ($41 billion) on a new plan to revive regional electricity retailers, people with knowledge of the matter said, after a previous attempt failed to stem losses at the utilities.<\/p>\n<p>The spending would be spread over a few years and is likely to be unveiled on Feb. 1 as part of the government\u2019s budget for the year starting April 1, the people said, asking not to be identified as the proposal isn\u2019t public. The plan for carrying out reforms for reducing losses of state distribution utilities was sought by the nation\u2019s power ministry and is under discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s government is focusing on turning around electricity distributors to ensure reliable power supplies, improving the financial health of generators and making the sector more attractive to foreign investors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India plans to spend \u20b93 trillion ($41 billion) on a new plan to revive regional electricity retailers, people with knowledge of the matter said, after a previous attempt failed to stem losses at the utilities. The spending would be spread over a few years and is likely to be unveiled on Feb. 1 as part of the government\u2019s budget for the year starting April 1, the people said, asking not to be identified as the proposal isn\u2019t public. The plan for carrying out reforms for reducing losses of state distribution utilities was sought by the nation\u2019s power ministry and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397533","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}