{"id":398260,"date":"2021-02-01T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398260"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:59:39","slug":"budget-2021-govt-may-announce-new-scheme-for-revival-of-discoms-to-achieve-24x7-power-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/budget-2021-govt-may-announce-new-scheme-for-revival-of-discoms-to-achieve-24x7-power-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2021: Govt may announce new scheme for revival of discoms to achieve 24X7 power for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government may announce a new scheme for cash-strapped and loss-making electricity distribution utilities to reduce stress in the sector and achieve the goal of &#8217;24X7 Power for All&#8217;, a source said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The discoms are cash-strapped and need some revival package for maintaining 24X7 power supply. A new scheme for revival of discoms has been deliberated upon, which may be announced in the General Budget on Monday,&#8221; a source said.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre in November 2015 introduced the UDAY (Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana) scheme for the revival of the debt-laden discoms.<\/p>\n<p>Under the scheme, discoms were envisaged to turn around financially within three years from signing agreements under it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government may announce a new scheme for cash-strapped and loss-making electricity distribution utilities to reduce stress in the sector and achieve the goal of &#8217;24X7 Power for All&#8217;, a source said. &#8220;The discoms are cash-strapped and need some revival package for maintaining 24X7 power supply. A new scheme for revival of discoms has been deliberated upon, which may be announced in the General Budget on Monday,&#8221; a source said. The Centre in November 2015 introduced the UDAY (Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana) scheme for the revival of the debt-laden discoms. Under the scheme, discoms were envisaged to [&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-398260","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\/398260","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=398260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}