{"id":429197,"date":"2021-08-05T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T06:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429197"},"modified":"2021-08-05T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T06:33:02","slug":"discoms-need-greater-autonomy-says-niti-aayog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/discoms-need-greater-autonomy-says-niti-aayog\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoms need greater autonomy, says Niti Aayog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Government think-tank Niti Aayog has recommended that state-owned power distribution companies (discom) require greater operational and financial autonomy if they were to succeed. There should be a clear separation between the utility and state, it added. <\/p>\n<p>The recommendations were made as part of a report titled &#8216;Turning Around the Power Distribution Sector&#8217;, where the think-tank observed that Niti the performance of state-owned discoms is also determined by the ability of the respective State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERC) to revise tariff frequently and adequately. &#8220;Good corporate governance practices, including the use of independent directors, can help ensure such separation,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Government think-tank Niti Aayog has recommended that state-owned power distribution companies (discom) require greater operational and financial autonomy if they were to succeed. There should be a clear separation between the utility and state, it added. The recommendations were made as part of a report titled &#8216;Turning Around the Power Distribution Sector&#8217;, where the think-tank observed that Niti the performance of state-owned discoms is also determined by the ability of the respective State Electricity Regulatory Commissions (SERC) to revise tariff frequently and adequately. &#8220;Good corporate governance practices, including the use of independent directors, can help ensure such separation,&#8221; [&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":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429197","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=429197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}