{"id":419046,"date":"2021-06-07T11:18:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T05:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=419046"},"modified":"2021-06-07T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T06:58:18","slug":"power-crisis-despite-pfc-rec-loan-discoms-dues-rise-8-at-april-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-crisis-despite-pfc-rec-loan-discoms-dues-rise-8-at-april-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Crisis: Despite PFC-REC loan, discoms\u2019 dues rise 8% at April-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run electricity distribution companies\u2019 (discoms\u2019) overdues \u2014 pending receivables of 45 days or more \u2014 from private power producers increased 8% on year to Rs 36,018 crore at April-end, even as their total overdues stood at Rs 68,330 crore, down 9.6% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Receivables from central government power stations fell 39% annually to Rs 20,978 crore. <\/p>\n<p>Discoms cleared bills of Rs 12,361 crore in April against Rs 38,286 crore in March \u2013 they usually pay a larger portion of the dues in the last month of a fiscal year. <\/p>\n<p>Invoices cleared in the month in April was still 76% higher than the value of bills paid in April FY21, thanks to PFC-REC loans received by dicsoms under the Rs 1.25-lakh-crore liquidity infusion scheme announced by the Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run electricity distribution companies\u2019 (discoms\u2019) overdues \u2014 pending receivables of 45 days or more \u2014 from private power producers increased 8% on year to Rs 36,018 crore at April-end, even as their total overdues stood at Rs 68,330 crore, down 9.6% from a year earlier. Receivables from central government power stations fell 39% annually to Rs 20,978 crore. Discoms cleared bills of Rs 12,361 crore in April against Rs 38,286 crore in March \u2013 they usually pay a larger portion of the dues in the last month of a fiscal year. Invoices cleared in the month in April was still [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419046","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\/419046","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=419046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}