{"id":418517,"date":"2021-06-03T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T06:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=418517"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:29:58","slug":"power-department-cuts-losses-by-2-87-recovers-dues-of-%e2%82%b9162-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-department-cuts-losses-by-2-87-recovers-dues-of-%e2%82%b9162-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Power department cuts losses by 2.87%, recovers dues of \u20b9162 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity department has managed to reduce aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses by 2.87% this year, officials of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) said on Wednesday, citing checks on electricity theft on a large scale as the main reason. The department registered 48,729 cases of power theft in 2020-21 and fines to the tune of \u20b9162 crore were realised, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Balkar Singh, the managing director of DHBVN, said that the transmission and other losses in 2020-21 have decreased sharply as the discom focussed on reducing losses. \u201cThe transmission losses have come down from 16.50% last year to 13.63% this year. One of the major reasons for AT&amp;C loss is electricity theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity department has managed to reduce aggregate technical and commercial (AT&amp;C) losses by 2.87% this year, officials of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) said on Wednesday, citing checks on electricity theft on a large scale as the main reason. The department registered 48,729 cases of power theft in 2020-21 and fines to the tune of \u20b9162 crore were realised, officials said. Dr Balkar Singh, the managing director of DHBVN, said that the transmission and other losses in 2020-21 have decreased sharply as the discom focussed on reducing losses. \u201cThe transmission losses have come down from 16.50% last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418517","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}